Agata Hikari

Agata Hikari was a Japanese novelist and translator. She won many awards throughout her career, but was best known for her Noma Literary Prize-winning novel.

Biography
Hikari was born Kazue Asai in Tokyo, Japan on January 25, 1943. Her father was a police officer. She attended Waseda University, but dropped out and became a copywriter. After fifteen years of marriage, she divorced and began writing fiction in 1982. Hikari also worked as a translator.

Hikari's first publication was, a novel which won the Kaien New Writers Prize in 1982. Her next few works,, , and were all runners-up for the Akutagawa Prize. Uhoho Tankentai was adapted into the film House of Wedlock. Her 1986 won the Noma Literary Prize. Her 1988 was nominated for the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize. Many of her works were also nominated for other awards. Her works frequently included themes of divorce, family relationships, and life as a woman.

Hikari died on September 6, 1992, of stomach cancer.

Selected works

 * , 1982
 * , 1983
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 * , 1986
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 * , 1988