Sen Fujimoto (藤本泉, February 15, 1923– date unknown) was a Japanese novelist. She was best known for her Edogawa Rampo Prize-winning work Toki wo Kizamu Ushio (時を刻む潮).

Biography

Fujimoto was born in Tokyo on February 15, 1923. She graduated from Nihon University. In 1966 her first literary work, Ouna Hanjoki (媼繁盛記), won the Shosetu Gendai Shinjin Award. Her 1976 Noroi no Seiiki (呪いの聖域) was nominated for the Naoki Prize, but did not win it. Her later novel Toki wo Kizamu Ushio (時を刻む潮) won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1977.[1]

Fujimoto moved to Germany in 1986.[2] She went to France in 1989, and after that she became untraceable.[3]

Selected works

  • Ouna Hanjoki (媼繁盛記), 1966
  • Noroi no Seiiki (呪いの聖域), 1976
  • Toki wo Kizamu Ushio (時を刻む潮), 1977

References

  1. ↑ Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata (1994). Japanese women novelists in the 20th century : 104 biographies, 1900-1993. Marlene R. Edelstein. [Copenhagen]: Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 87-7289-268-4. OCLC 32348453.
  2. ↑ "藤本泉（ふじもと せん）-直木賞候補作家｜直木賞のすべて". prizesworld.com. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
  3. ↑ 日本人名大辞典+Plus, デジタル版. "藤本泉とは". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-11-16.
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