Tsuneko Nakazato

Tsuneko Nakazato (1909–1987), born in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan, was a pioneering Japanese novelist who became the first woman to win the Akutagawa Prize in 1938 for her short story Noriai bashi. She is renowned for novels exploring international marriage such as Mariannu monogatari (1946) and Kusari (1959), as well as Utamakura (1973), which earned the Yomiuri Prize, and received the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1974.