Minako Ōba

Minako Ōba (1930–2007) was a Japanese author, poet, and social critic renowned for her fiction exploring female identity and societal issues. She gained prominence with her debut novel Sanbiki no kani (Three Crabs, 1968), which won the Akutagawa Prize, and later received the Tanizaki Prize for Katachi mo naku (1982), among other honors including the Yomiuri Prize.