Kuniko Mukōda

was a Japanese TV screenwriter. Most of her scripts focus on day-to-day family life and relationships. She won the 83rd Naoki Prize (1980上) for her short stories "Hanano Namae", "Kawauso" and "Inugoya."

Life

Mukōda was born in Tokyo, and moved around Japan in her early life due to her father's job. After she graduated from Jissen Women's College (Jissen Women's University), she got a job at Ondori Company, a film publicity company, in 1952. In 1960, she left the company and became a screenwriter and radiowriter. On August 22, 1981, she died on Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 when it crashed in Taiwan.

Works

Some of her short stories are: The Name of The Flower Small Change I Doubt It The Otter Manhattan Beef Shoulder The Doghouse The Fake Egg Triangular Chop Mr. Carp Ears Half-Moon The Window Meeting Again Ashura no Gotoku

References

Further reading

"Meeting Again" 再会 (Saikai) in Tokyo stories: a literary stroll, Lawrence Rogers (ed.), University of California Press, 2002

External links

Kuniko Mukoda's grave

Prominent people of Minato City(Kuniko Mukoda)

1929 births

1981 deaths

Japanese essayists

20th-century Japanese novelists

Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Taiwan

Japanese television writers

Japanese women short story writers

Writers from Tokyo

Naoki Prize winners

20th-century Japanese short story writers

20th-century essayists

20th-century women writers

Women television writers

20th-century Japanese screenwriters