Chiya Fujino
Chiya Fujino is a Japanese writer of literary fiction. She has published several novels and short stories, and has been awarded three major Japanese literary prizes.
Fujino is a transgender woman who reflects the difficulties of her own life journey in the characterisations of her writing. Many of her characters are social misfits in conflict with the conventions and mores of wider Japanese society.
Born in the city of Fukuoka, Fujino attended Chiba University. In the 1980s, she worked in a major Japanese publishing house before beginning her own writing career.
Selected works
Gogo no jikanwari, 1995 Shonen to shojo no poruka Benesse Corporation, 1996; Kodansha, 2000 Oshaberi kaidan Kodansha, 1998; paperback 2001 Natsu no yakusoku Kodansha, 2000 Ruuto 225 Rironsha, 2002; Shinchosha, 2004- "The Housewife and the Police Box", included in Tokyo Fragments: Short Stories of Tokyo by Five of Japan's leading Contemporary Writers, IBC Publishing, 2004Bejitaburu haitsu Kobunsha, 2005
- "Her Room", included in Inside and Other Short Fiction - Japanese Women by Japanese Women Kodansha, 2006
- "Preface" in Tokyo Fragments: Short Stories of Tokyo by Five of Japan's leading Contemporary Writers, IBC Publishing, 2004
Online
- - English translation of Oshaberi kaidan and biographical note