Tamaki Daidō

Tamaki Daidō (大道 珠貴, Daidō Tamaki, born 1966 in Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She worked as a radio scriptwriter before achieving literary success, winning the Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Prize in 2000 for Hadaka, the 128th Akutagawa Prize in 2003 for Shoppai doraibu (Salty Drive), and the Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize in 2005 for Kizuguchi ni wa uokka (Vodka for Wounds). An English translation of her short story \"Milk\" appeared in the 2006 anthology Inside and Other Short Fiction, and she contributes a regular column to the Asahi Shimbun since 2011. Japanese NDL Authorities