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{{Short description|Japanese writer}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Amy Yamada <br />{{nobold|山田 詠美}}
| native_name_lang = ja
| image =
| caption = Author Photo
| birth_name = Yamada Futaba (山田双葉)
| pseudonym = Yamada Eimi (山田詠美)
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|2|2|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan
| occupation = Novelist, short-story writer, essayist
| notableworks = {{unbulletedlist|''Bedtime Eyes'' (1985)|''Soul Music Lovers Only'' (1987)|''Trash'' (1991)|''Animal Logic'' (1996)|''A2Z'' (2000)}}
}}
{{nihongo|'''Amy Yamada'''|山田 詠美|Yamada Eimi|
== Biography ==
Yamada Amy (born Yamada Futaba 山田双葉) was born in Itabashi, Tokyo and moved frequently after the age of 2, due to the nature of her father's job. Over the course of her childhood, she lived in Sapporo City, Kaga City, Ashida City, Kanuma City. This transient lifestyle forced her to confront issues of separation and bullying, issues that many of her protagonists also deal with.
According to her interview with the Japanese magazine ''Bungei,'' during middle school she was moved by African-American [[soul music]] and began to read any novels she could find written by [[black people]], or featuring black people. She held a job in the [[Roppongi]] district of [[Tokyo]], an area rich with foreigners. In high school, she was a member of the Arts, Mountaineering, and Literature Club. Her favorite authors were [[Boris Vian]] and [[Françoise Sagan|Francoise Sagan]].
After graduating from high school in 1977, she entered [[Meiji University|Meiji University's]] Literature Department, but dropped out before graduating.
She began writing novels in 1980. Though her works garnered some attention, even receiving praise from Japanese literary critic {{nihongo|Jun Etō|江藤淳|Etō Jun}}, she only achieved widespread recognition in 1985, when ''Bedtime Eyes'' won the [[Bungei Prize]] and was nominated for the [[Akutagawa Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Jewel |first=Mark |title=The Japanese Literature Home Page |url=http://www.jlit.net/authors_works/modernlit/bio_briefs/t_to_z_briefs.html#yamada_eimi |access-date=2007-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215446/http://www.jlit.net/authors_works/modernlit/bio_briefs/t_to_z_briefs.html#yamada_eimi |archive-date=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In writing ''Bedtime Eyes'', Yamada drew upon her experiences with black people and black culture and combined them with the Japanese literary tradition.
In Yamada's second collection of works, ''Jesse's Spine,'' Yamada depicts the experiences of a woman who is learning to adjust to life with her lover's child from another relationship. The writing style of this work has been compared to [[William Saroyan]]'s novel, ''Papa You're Crazy
In 1996, ''Trash'' was published in English translation by Kodansha International (translator: Sonya L. Johnson). In May 2006, three of Yamada's novellas (''Bedtime Eyes'' 「ベッドタイム・アイズ」, ''The Piano Player's Fingers'' 「指の戯れ」 and ''Jesse''「ジェシーの背骨」) were published in English translation (translators: [[Yumi Gunji]] and Marc Jardine) as a single volume by St Martin's Press under the collective title ''Bedtime Eyes''.
== Legacy ==
In her short novels ''Classroom for the Abandoned Dead,'' ''Afterschool Music,'' and ''I Can't Study,'' Yamada tackles the topics of childhood life, [[bullying]], and school life. In an interview with ''[[Bungei Shunjū]]'' upon winning the Akutagawa Prize, [[Risa Wataya]] and [[Hitomi Kanehara]] named Yamada's ''Afterschool Music'' as one of their major influences, explaining that her works were one of the greatest depictions of modern Japan.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}{{Portal|Biography|Novels|Japan}}
==Prizes==
* 1985 [[Bungei Prize]]---''Bedtime Eyes (Beddotaimu Aizu, ベッドタイムアイズ)''
* 1987 [[Naoki Prize]]---''Soul Music Lovers Only (Sōru Myūjikku Rabāzu Onrī, ソウル・ミュージック・ラバーズ・オンリー)''
* 1989 [[Hirabayashi Taiko]] Bungaku Prize
* 1991 [[Jyoryū Bungaku Prize]]---''Trash (Torasshu, トラッシュ)''
* 1996 [[Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature]]---''Animal Logic (Animaru Rojikku, アニマル・ロジック)''
* 2000 [[Yomiuri Prize]]---''A2Z''
* 2005 [[Tanizaki Prize]]---''Wonderful Flavor (Fūmizekka, 風味絶佳)''
*2012 [[Noma Literary Prize|Noma Bungei Prize]]---''Gentleman (Jentoruman, ジェントルマン)''
*2016 Kawabata Yasunari Bungei Prize---''Perishable Teru Teru Bozu'' (''Seishin Teru Teru Bōzu'', 生鮮てるてる坊主)
== Works in English ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Title
!Year
!Translator
!Publisher
|-
|"Kneel Down and Lick My Feet" in ''Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes In Japanese Fiction''
|1991
|Terry Gallagher
|Kodansha International
|-
|''Trash''
|1994
|Sonya Johnson
|Kodansha International
|-
|"Fiesta" in ''Inside and Other Short Fiction''
|2006
|Cathy Lane (Compiler)
|Kodansha International
|-
|''Bedtime Eyes''
|2006
|Yumi Gunji/Marc Jardine
|St. Martin's Press
|}
== Major works ==
* ベッドタイムアイズ (''Beddotaimu Aizu'') ''[[Bedtime Eyes]]'' (1985)
* ジェシーの背骨 (''Jeshī no Sebone'') ''Jesse's Spine'' (1986)
* ソウル・ミュージック・ラバーズ・オンリー (''Sōru Myūjikku Rabāzu Onrī'') ''Soul Music Lovers Only'' (1987)
* 風葬の教室 (''Fūsō no Kyōshitsu'') ''Classroom for the Abandoned Dead'' (1988)
* 放課後の音符 (''Hōkago no Kii Nooto'') ''Afterschool Music'' (1989)
* トラッシュ (''Torasshu'') ''Trash'' (1991)
* 僕は勉強ができない (''Boku wa Benkyō ga Dekinai'') ''I Can't Study'' (1993)
* 120%COOOL (''120% COOOL'') 120%COOOL (1994)
* アニマル・ロジック (''Animaru Rojikku'') ''Animal Logic'' (1996)
* ''4U'' (1997)
* ''MAGNET'' (1999)
* ''A2Z'' (2003)
* ''PAY DAY!!!'' (2003)
== Adapted to film and television ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Title
!in Japanese
!Year
!Production
!Director
|-
|''Bedtime Eyes''
|ベッドタイムアイズ
|1987
|Herald Film (ヘラルド映画)
|Kumashiro Tatsumi (神代辰巳)
|-
|''Soul Music Lovers Only''
|ソウル・ミュージック・ラバーズ・オンリー
|1988
|Promotive Eye21 (プロモ―ティヴEye21)
|Ohara Kōyū (小原宏裕)
|-
|''I Cant Study!''
|ぼくは勉強できない
|1996
|Toho
|Yamamoto Yasuhiko (山本泰彦)
|-
|''Sugar and Spice''
|''シュガー&スパイス 風味絶佳''
|2006
|Toho
|Nakae Isamu (中江功)
|-
|''Evening Meal'' (includes ''Wonderful Flavor'')
|夕餉(「風味絶佳」収録)
|2013
|NHK series ''Anime Time for Adult Women'' (大人女子アニメタイム)
|
|-
|Kenji's Love
|賢者の愛
|2016
|TV Drama
|}
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