Accepting the 2018 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award
Born
(1955-01-09) January 9, 1955 (age 69)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Other names
Michi
Education
Yale University (BA)
Occupations
Critic
author
journalist
Employers
The Washington Post (c. 1976–1977)
Time (1977–1979)
The New York Times (1979–2017)
Parents
Shizuo Kakutani (father)
Keiko Uchida (mother)
Relatives
Yoshiko Uchida (aunt)
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1998)
Michiko Kakutani (ミチコ・カクタニ, 角谷 美智子, born January 9, 1955) is an American writer and retired literary critic, best known for reviewing books for The New York Times from 1983 to 2017. In that role, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998.
MichikoKakutani (ミチコ・カクタニ, 角谷 美智子, born January 9, 1955) is an American writer and retired literary critic, best known for reviewing books for The New...
Massachusetts. Kakutani was married to Keiko ("Kay") Uchida, who was a sister to author Yoshiko Uchida. His daughter, MichikoKakutani, is a Pulitzer...
Kakutani is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: MichikoKakutani (born 1955), Japanese-American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic...
to MichikoKakutani, some aspects of the novel reflect Nietzsche's model of Apollonian and Dionysian expression in The Birth of Tragedy. Kakutani, writing...
on—while praising Crocodile Dundee, E.T. and Terminator 2". Similarly, MichikoKakutani in The New York Times writes, "Mr. Booker evaluates works of art on...
Ministry to Man, was published in 1959, one year before Mockingbird." MichikoKakutani made note of the changes between the two versions: "Some plot points...
1997 Ambassador Book Award for Fiction. In The New York Times, critic MichikoKakutani called the work “dazzling ... a book that forces us to reassess the...
Sun compared it to Faulkner; Roger Perkins of The Daily Telegraph, MichikoKakutani of The New York Times, and Ron Charles of The Washington Post all compared...
published in Chinese, Hebrew and Japanese. In The New York Times, MichikoKakutani praised the book as "an insightful and beautifully written… a series...
expands upon Rice's vampire mythology, and The New York Times critic MichikoKakutani noted, "We learn lots of 'facts' about vampires and vampire culture...
mainstream appeal. In a generally favorable review, The New York Times' MichikoKakutani called it "Pynchon Lite", describing it as "a simple shaggy-dog detective...
important living writer about wilderness". In The New York Times, MichikoKakutani argued that Arctic Dreams "is a book about the Arctic North in the...
selected from several thousand entrants as the author of the new novel. MichikoKakutani, writing in The New York Times, called it "a solid enough performance:...
image that sears itself into your consciousness" while a review by MichikoKakutani of their poetry collections in the same paper explored their written...
excellent at imitating human speech. Writing in The New York Times, MichikoKakutani called the book "powerful", but said the social allegories were at...
And it is a warning - to Muslims and to secular pluralists alike." MichikoKakutani in The New York Times was more critical and described Rushdie's prose...
January 2020. Kakutani, Michiko (3 November 1992). "'Black Dogs'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 January 2020. MichikoKakutani, "How a Family...