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Nobuko Yoshiya

1896 - 1973

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Nobuko Yoshiya (吉屋 信子, Yoshiya Nobuko; 12 January 1896 – 11 July 1973) was a Japanese novelist active in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. She was one of modern Japan's most commercially successful and prolific writers, specializing in serialized romance novels and adolescent girls' fiction, as well as being a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the Class S genre. Several of her stories have been made into films. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nobuko Yoshiya is the 3,024th most popular writer (up from 3,433rd in 2019), the 916th most popular biography from Japan (up from 969th in 2019) and the 65th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 3,024 out of 7,302. Before her are Titus Burckhardt, Viktor Dyk, Antal Szerb, Jean Lorrain, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, and Censorinus. After her are Ishaq ibn Hunayn, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Siegfried Sassoon, Gunilla Bergström, Marcin Bielski, and Raffi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 133. Before her are Eduardo Lonardi, Salim Ali, Ieronim Uborevich, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, and Ira Gershwin. After her are Robert Gerhard, Ramón Franco, Josephine Tey, Aimo Lahti, Dodie Smith, and Alberto Demicheli. Among people deceased in 1973, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 128. Before her are Marthe Bibesco, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Jeannette Rankin, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Grigori Kozintsev, and Helen Parkhurst. After her are Bobby Darin, Adolfo Zumelzú, Hilda Geiringer, Walter Krüger, Aleksandr Ptushko, and Joe E. Brown.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 916 out of 6,245. Before her are Kunimitsu Takahashi (1940), Takayoshi Yamano (1955), Koichi Kudo (1909), Kodama Gentarō (1852), Kanō Motonobu (1476), and Kabayama Sukenori (1837). After her are Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959), Seijun Suzuki (1923), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Hiroshi Ninomiya (1937), Asakura Yoshikage (1533), and Nagakura Shinpachi (1839).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 65. Before her are Shūji Terayama (1935), Takiji Kobayashi (1903), Saigyō (1118), George Ohsawa (1893), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), and Yūko Tsushima (1947). After her are Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), Fumiko Enchi (1905), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), Jien (1155), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), and Ango Sakaguchi (1906).

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