Hirata Toshiko
Hirata Toshiko - Hirata Toshiko (1955) is a prominent Japanese poet and novelist. During the 1980s, she, along with Ito Hiromi, emerged as one of the foremost voices so-called “women’s boom” of poetry. Her poetry is known for its directness and black humor. In the last decade, she has increasingly turned to writing novels, which often feature ordinary people in bizarre circumstances that lead them to question the traditional family system and the spots allotted to them in society.