The Modern Novel

Biography

Yūko Tsushima was born in 1947 in Mitaka, Tokyo. She was the daughter of the writer Osamu Dazai. He committed suicide when she was one year old. She studied English literature at the Shirayuri Women’s University and then at Meiji University graduate school. She published her first fiction while still at university and her first collection of stories when twenty-four. The mother-child theme was key to her work though she also wrote about the death of her son from respiratory disease. Her sister Sonoko was Minister of Health while her sister Haruko Ota is an author and her daughter Kaori is a playwright. She died of lung cancer in 2016.

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