Yukiko Motoya

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yukiko Motoya
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jul 14, 1979(1979-07-14)
Age	45
Birthplace	Hakusan
Country	Japan
Birth City	Ishikawa Prefecture
Horoscope	Cancer

Yukiko Motoya Biography

Yukiko Motoya is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on July 14, 1979 in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Yukiko Motoya, also known as Ben Gu You Xi Zi, Motoya Yukiko was born July 14, 1979. She is a Japanese playwright, novelist, director of theatre, and voice actress. Numerous Japanese literary and drama awards have been won by her, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Noma Literary New Face Prize. She also received the Kenzaburo Oe Prize and the Kishida Kunio Drama Award. Multiple times, her work has been adapted for film.

Motoya continued to write and direct plays for her theatre company, as well as short stories and novels. In 2006, she was the youngest recipient of the Tsuruya Naboku Memorial Award in Best Play. She received the award for her play Sonan (Distress). She also visited the United States in 2006 as part of an exchange program sponsored by Japan Foundation for playwrights. Kyoko Yoshida translated Vengeance Can Wait into English and premiered it at the Best of Boroughs Festival, New York City, in 2008. Her play Shiawase, saiko, majide, which is about a woman who claims to be the husband’s mistress and enters a couple’s home, won the 53rd Kishida Kunio Drama Award. The film adaptation of Ranbo taiki (Vengeance can Wait), directed and starring Tadanobu Asano and Minami Hinase and Eiko Koike was premiered in Japan the following year.

In 2013 Motoya married the poet, lyricist and film director Kite Okachimachi. Her first daughter was born in October 2015.

In 2016, on her fourth nomination, Motoya won the 154th Akutagawa Prize for her story Irui konin tan (Tales of Marriage to a Different Sort), in which a wife discovers that she and her husband look more and more alike as they grow older together. At the prize ceremony the press commented on her mismatched socks, leading Motoya to admit that she had not expected to win, and had rushed to the prize ceremony without any special preparation. The prize- winning work became the title story of a collection of four stories published later that year by Kodansha.

Nobuko Tanaka, The Japan Times, has called Motoya the “darling of Japanese media”, for her contributions to Japanese magazines and television. Motoya hosted the late-night radio show All Night Nippon on Fridays from 2005 to 2006. She was the regular host of “The Top 5”, Season 4 on TBS Radio. She is currently co-host of 7 Rules, a Fuji TV documentary series.

Yukiko Motoya Net Worth

Yukiko Motoya is one of the richest Writer from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yukiko Motoya 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Motoya was born at Hakusan in Ishikawa. She was a reader of mystery stories by Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle as a child, and horror manga as well. Motoya graduated high school and moved to Tokyo to study acting. She won the voice acting role in Hideaki Anno’s anime adaptation of Kare Kano. However, she switched to writing when a teacher recommended a short play Motoya had written for the school’s graduation ceremony. In 2000, she founded Gekidan Motoyo Yukiko, a theater company called Motoya Yukiko Theater Company. She began writing and staging her own plays.

Motoya’s first fiction story was Eriko to Zettai, which she wrote after being invited by a magazine editor. It was the title story in a Kodansha 2003 collection. Her novel Funuke domo kanashimi no ai o misero (Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!) In 2005, it was published. It was later adapted into the 2007 Daihachi Yashida film Funuke, You Losers! starring Eriko Sato & Hiromi Nagasaku. This film was shown at Cannes Film Festival.

Motoya’s novel Ikiteru dake de ai (Love at Least) , about an unemployed and apparently depressed woman’s relationship with her boyfriend, was published in 2006 by Shinchosha. Ikiteru dake de ai was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, and was later adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. Motoya’s 2009 novel Ano ko no kangaeru koto wa hen (That Girl’s Got Some Strange Ideas) was nominated for the 141st Akutagawa Prize. She was nominated a third time for her 2011 novel Nurui doku (Warm Poison), about a woman who has a relationship with a pathological liar claiming to be a former high school classmate. Though Nurui doku did not win the Akutagawa Prize, it won the 33rd Noma Literary New Face Prize. Motoya subsequently won the 7th Kenzaburo Oe Prize for her 2012 collection Arashi no pikunikku (Picnic in the Storm), and the 27th Mishima Yukio Prize for her 2013 novel Jibun wo suki ni naru houhou.

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