WRITER

Yūko Tsushima

1947 - 2016

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Satoko Tsushima (30 March 1947 – 18 February 2016), known by her pen name Yūko Tsushima (津島 佑子 Tsushima Yūko), was a Japanese fiction writer, essayist and critic. Tsushima won many of Japan's top literary prizes in her career, including the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Yomiuri Prize and the Tanizaki Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yūko Tsushima has received more than 216,472 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Yūko Tsushima is the 2,890th most popular writer, the 847th most popular biography from Japan and the 68th most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Child of fortune
Fiction, general
1978
Danmariichi
1984
Hi no kawa no hotori de
1983
Woman running in the mountains
Fiction, Language and languages, Single mothers
Pregnant and unmarried, Takiko, who lives at home with her violent, alcoholic father and her hard-working mother, discovers the true meaning of love, growing up, and maturity after she bears a son
1980
The shooting gallery
Social life and customs, Women, Translations into English
1987
Hikari no ryōbun
Tokyo (japan), fiction, Fiction, family life, New York Times reviewed
1979
Child of fortune
Fiction, general
1978
Danmariichi
1984
Hi no kawa no hotori de
1983
Woman running in the mountains
Fiction, Language and languages, Single mothers
Pregnant and unmarried, Takiko, who lives at home with her violent, alcoholic father and her hard-working mother, discovers the true meaning of love, growing up, and maturity after she bears a son
1980
The shooting gallery
Social life and customs, Women, Translations into English
1987
Hikari no ryōbun
Tokyo (japan), fiction, Fiction, family life, New York Times reviewed
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yūko Tsushima ranks 2,890 out of 7,302. Before her are Hyginus Gromaticus, Tomas Venclova, Venedikt Yerofeyev, Bernardo Atxaga, Antiphanes, and Fazil Iskander. After her are John Fletcher, Tom Stoppard, Francisco Ayala, Huseyn Javid, Léon Daudet, and Herman J. Mankiewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Yūko Tsushima ranks 263. Before her are William Atherton, Hitoshi Igarashi, Peter Strauss, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Dawoud Rajiha, and Robertino Loreti. After her are Alan Dale, Lev Rubinstein, László Fazekas, Jozef De Kesel, Peter Senge, and Tim Buckley. Among people deceased in 2016, Yūko Tsushima ranks 185. Before her are Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Lola Novaković, Sixto Durán Ballén, Mahasweta Devi, Christina Grimmie, and Fazil Iskander. After her are Klim Churyumov, Jacques Hamel, Pierre Étaix, Halil İnalcık, Madeleine Lebeau, and Željko Čajkovski.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yūko Tsushima ranks 847 out of 6,245. Before her are Inoue Kaoru (1836), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Seiichi Sakiya (1950), Kanji Ishiwara (1889), Eiko Ishioka (1938), and Takeshi Natori (null). After her are Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Akihiro Miwa (1935), Shiro Teshima (1907), Tsuda Umeko (1864), Nakayama Yoshiko (1836), and Norio Ohga (1930).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yūko Tsushima ranks 68. Before her are Ōtomo no Yakamochi (718), Kamo no Chōmei (1155), Takiji Kobayashi (1903), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), Ango Sakaguchi (1906), and Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934). After her are Takeo Arishima (1878), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Ozaki Kōyō (1868), Naoya Shiga (1883), Kan Kikuchi (1888), and Futabatei Shimei (1864).

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