Shigeko Yuki

was a Japanese writer and laureate of the Akutagawa Prize.

Life Yuki was born Shige Shinkai on 2 December 1900 in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

Her mother died when Yuki was 10 years old. In 1919, she enrolled in Kobe Women's College to study music, but dropped out due to objections from her family. Hon no hanashi (本の話, A Tale of Books), Yuki (together with Tsuyoshi Kotani) Hon no hanashi tells of a woman who tries to sell her deceased brother-in-law's books to pay for his widow's medical bills. During this time, Yuki was incorrectly diagnosed with tuberculosis, which made her feel that her life had no purpose, until the diagnosis was corrected three years later. In addition to adaptations of her own work by Tasaka and Yūzō Kawashima, she co-wrote the screenplay for Heinosuke Gosho's Elegy of the North and worked on the dialogue for Gosho's Yellow Crow.

Yuki died on 30 December 1969 of diabetes and pyaemia.

Selected works Yagurumasō (Forest Carnations), 1947 Hon no hanashi (本の話, A Tale of Books), 1949 Kokubetsu (Farewell), 1951 Yubiwa no hanashi (The Tale of a Ring), 1951 Jochūkko (女中ッ子, Au Pair), 1951 Fuyu no ki (Bushes in Winter), 1953 Hyōhakku (Wandering), 1954 Akasaka no kyōdai (赤坂の姉妹, The Akasaka Sisters), 1960 Keiyaku kekkon (契約結婚, Marriage by Contract), 1961 Yasashii otto (やさしい良人, My Tender Husband), 1963