"Kaho Nakayama (Japanese: 中山 可穂, born 1960) is a Japanese writer. Her debut novel, The Stoop-Shouldered Prince (猫背の王子, Nekoze no Ouji), was published in 1993, and her subsequent novels have won and been nominated for a number of Japanese literary awards including the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize.[...]
Her 1995 novel, Angel Bones (天使の骨, Tenshi no Hone) won the Asahi New Writers' Literary Award, and her 2001 novel, To the Depths of a White Rose (白い薔薇の淵まで, Shiroi Bara no Fuchi Made) was awarded the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize.[...]
Nakayama's works, such as her 2000 novel Sentimental Education (感情教育, sharing a title with Gustav Flaubert's novel), are known for their frequent motifs of heartrending lesbian love and relationships. To the Depths of a White Rose and Sentimental Education were both published at the end of what has been described as Japan's 'gay boom', spanning the late 1980s and 1990s, where novels such as To the Depths of a White Rose and Chiya Fujino's A Promise for Summer, both won major Japanese literary awards." Text preluat de pe WIKIPEDIA
