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Sue Sumii

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Early life
Career
Personal life
Death
References

{{Nihongo|Sue Sumii|住井すゑ|Sumii Sue|January 7, 1902 – June 16, 1997}} was a Japanese social reformer, writer, and novelist. She was an active advocate for victims of discrimination, most notably the Burakumin. She is best known for her novel, {{Nihongo|Hashi no nai kawa|橋のない川||"The River with No Bridge"}}.^[1]

Early life

Sumii attended and graduated Haramoto Women's High School receiving a degree as a teacher. At the age of 18, she went to Tokyo and worked for the publishing house, Kodansha. After a couple of years, Sumii left Kodansha due to discriminatory treatment and working conditions of women.^[2]

Career

During the time with her husband and children, Sumii started writing short stories and publishing novels based on the lives of young people associated with nomin bungaku, or the agrarian literature movement. In 1954, her work for Yoake asaake (“Dawn-Daybreak”) was awarded the Mainichi Culture Prize.^[1]

In 1957, Sumii's husband died. In the following year, 1958, she began writing the first volume of the seven-part novel Hashi no nai kawa (橋のない川 "The River with No Bridge"), which focused on the fate of the discriminated Burakumin.^[3] Her work was first published in Buraku, the magazine of the Buraku Mondai Kenkyusho or Buraku Study Group. After its success, it was then published in hardcover in 1961.

Hashi no nai kawa has sold over eight million copies, has been filmed twice (including a 1992 version directed by Yōichi Higashi), an English translated version, The River with No Bridge, was published in 1992.,^[2] and an Italian translated version, Il fiume senza ponti, was published in 2016 by Atmosphere libri.

Personal life

In 1921, Sumii married Shigeru Inuta, a literary activist of the proletarian agrarian movement, which produced “peasant literature,” protecting poor farmers.

In 1935, they moved to Inuta's birthplace, Hitachino, in the Ibaraki Prefecture, where they farmed the land. They had four children; two sons and two daughters.

Death

At the age of 95, Sumii died on June 16, 1997. Right before her death, she was working on an eighth part of Hashi no nai kawa.

References

1. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Sue-Sumii|title=Sue Sumii|work=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
2. ^¹{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sue-sumii-1257598.html|title=Obituary: Sue Sumii|author=James Kirkup|date=22 June 1997|work=The Independent}}
3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Hashi-nai-kawa-Japanese-Edition/dp/4101137072|title=Hashi no nai kawa. 6|last=Sumii|first=Sue|date=1981-01-01|publisher=Shinchosha|isbn=9784101137070|location=東京|language=Japanese}}

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