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Ohara Tomie
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- She was born in Kochi Prefecture in 1912. In 1930, she contracted tuberculosis and was forced to drop out of the Women’s Normal School. She spent nearly ten years in recuperation; it was during this long recovery that she began writing, making her first literary submission in 1932. In 1941, she moved to Tokyo to devote herself to her creative work, where she built a wider and deeper network of connections. In 1944, she returned to her hometown to collect research material on Nonaka En, a female doctor from the Tosa Domain who was forced to live in confinement during the Edo Period. Based on this research, she wrote a book named En to iu Onna (A Woman Called En), which was published in 1960 and went on to win the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award and the Noma Literary Prize. Furthermore, the book was later translated and published in various countries around the world and was made into a film directed by Tadashi Imai in 1971. As a pioneer of Japanese female writers, she wrote numerous novels that are hailed as masterpieces, and she carved out her own unique literary world. Her literary works were also adapted for television, including En (Bond, 1961, NTV), Kawa wa Ima mo Nagareru (The River Still Flows, 1962, Fuji TV), Midare (Turmoil, 1964, TBS), Akumeitakaki Onna (A Notorious Woman, 1964, NET [now TV Asahi]), Akiko (TBS in 1971 and Yomiuri TV in 1975), Kiri no Shikai (Foggy Vision, 1975, NHK), and Yume no Isu (The Chair of Dreams, 1990, NTV). She died in 2000 at the age of 87.
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