About Nobuko Yoshiya
Nobuko Yoshiya (吉屋 信子, Yoshiya Nobuko; 12 January 1896 – 11 July 1973) was a Japanese novelist active in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. She was one of modern Japan's most commercially successful and prolific writers, specializing in serialized romance novels and adolescent girls' fiction, as well as being a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the Class S genre. Several of her stories have been made into films. Her father was first a police officer and then became a local county government official, so her family relocated often to accommodate his transfers. One of Yoshiya's early works, Hana monogatari ( 花物語 "Flower Tales", 1916–1924), a series of fifty-two tales of romantic friendships, became popular among female students.
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