Nobuko Takagi

is the professional name of , a Japanese author. She has won the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, she has been named a Person of Cultural Merit, and her work has been adapted for film.

Biography Takagi was born Nobuko Tsuruta in Yamaguchi Prefecture on April 9, 1946. She graduated from the Junior College of Tokyo Women's University, after which she worked at a publishing company for two years, married her first husband in 1971, and had a son. Takagi moved to Fukuoka in 1974, divorced her first husband in 1978 and married her second husband, a lawyer, in 1980. the 1999 novel , which won the 35th Tanizaki Prize and was later translated into English by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi, In 2011 her story won the 36th Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize. In 2018 she was named a Person of Cultural Merit. Takagi is an Akutagawa Prize selection committee member. She continues to live in Fukuoka.

Recognition 1984 90th Akutagawa Prize (1983下) for 1994 Shimase Literary Prize for Love Stories for 1999 35th Tanizaki Prize for 2011 36th Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize 2018 Person of Cultural Merit