Taiko Hirabayashi - Taiko Hirabayashi

Novelist. Born in Nagano Prefecture on October 3, 1905. Her family was an old family, but had fallen into decline. After graduating from the Prefectural Suwa Girls' High School, she moved to Tokyo and became an operator at the central telephone exchange, but gradually became involved with anarchist groups. She wandered around Manchuria (northeastern China), and after returning to Japan, she married Kobori Jinji, a member of the Literary Front. In May 1927 (Showa 2), her work Mockery was selected as a short story prize winner in the Osaka Asahi Shimbun, and she entered the literary world. In June of the same year, she joined the Labor-Farmer Artists League, and was recognized as a budding proletarian writer with her work In the Treatment Room (1927), which was published in the Literary Front. In 1902, she was arrested in connection with the Popular Front Incident, but her condition worsened with peritonitis while in custody, and she was released. Based on this experience, she wrote "A Woman Who Loves Me" (1946) after the Second World War, which won her the first Women's Literature Prize. In the 1950s, she energetically wrote a long autobiographical novel, "Flowers of the Desert" (1955-57), and a nostalgic collection, "Autobiographical Friendships: Realistic Writers' Theory" (1960). In her later years, despite battling an incurable disease, she continued to write "Miyamoto Yuriko" (1971-72), but died of pneumonia on February 17, 1972. After her death, she was awarded the Hirabayashi Taiko Literature Prize and a memorial hall was established in Suwa City.

[Keiko Kanai]

"The Complete Works of Taiko Hirabayashi, 12 volumes (1976-79, Ushio Publishing)"

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小説家。明治38年10月3日長野県に生まれる。家は旧家であったが没落の一途をたどっていた。県立諏訪(すわ)高等女学校を卒業後、上京して中央電話局交換手になるが、しだいにアナキスト・グループに近づく。満州（中国東北）を放浪し、帰国後、『文芸戦線』同人の小堀甚二と結婚する。1927年（昭和2）5月『大阪朝日新聞』の懸賞短編小説に『嘲(あざけ)る』が入選し、文壇に登場した。同年6月、労農芸術家連盟に参加し、『文芸戦線』に発表した『施療室にて』（1927）で新進プロレタリア作家として認められる。37年、人民戦線事件で検挙されるが留置中に腹膜炎で重態となり釈放された。この体験を踏まえて第二次世界大戦後『かういふ女』（1946）を執筆し、第1回女流文学賞を受賞。50年代には長編自伝小説『砂漠の花』（1955～57）や懐古集『自伝的交友録・実感的作家論』（1960）などを精力的に執筆した。晩年、難病と闘いつつも『宮本百合子(ゆりこ)』（1971～72）を書き継いだが、肺炎のため昭和47年2月17日没。没後、平林たい子文学賞、諏訪市に記念館が設けられた。

［金井景子］

『『平林たい子全集』全12巻（1976～79・潮出版社）』

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