Aiko Satō (writer)

The novelist[1] Aiko Satō was born in Osaka[1] in 1923.[1] She is the second[2] daughter of the novelist[3] Kōroku Satō[1] and the agnate half-sister[1] of the poet[3] Hachirō Satō.[1]

Satō graduated the Kōnan Higher Girls' School[1] (the precursor to the modern Konan Girls' Junior and Senior High School).

Satō published early works in the magazine Bungei Shuto (文芸首都).[3] She wrote an autobigraphical novel, Aiko (愛子, 1959),[3] which she followed eight years later with a biography of her father entitled Hana wa Kurenai (花はくれない, "The Flowers Are Red", 1967)[3][lower-alpha 1] and seven years after that with a book about her mother, Joyū Mariko (女優万里子, "The Actress Mariko", 1974).[3]

Her works Sokuratesu no Tsuma (ソクラテスの妻, "Socrates' Wife") and Futari no Onna (二人の女, "Two Women"), both published in 1963,[3] earned a nomination for the Akutagawa Prize,[3] and Kanō Taii Fujin (加納大尉婦人, published 1964) was nominated for the Naoki Prize.[3] She won the 61st[2] Naoki Prize for Tatakai-sunde Hi ga Kurete (闘いすんで日が暮れて),[1] which portrays a woman's struggles with her incapable husband.[3]