暁の宇品 堀川惠子 ﾎﾘｶﾜｹｲｺ 講談社 :9784065345054

**「透析患者たちの闘いが国に与える力」**
ジャーナリスト・ドキュメンタリーディレクター・ノンフィクション作家。堀川恵子は、1992年に広島大学を卒業後、広島テレビ放送で記者として活動し、2004年に退社。その後は東京に移り、NHKやテレビ朝日、日本テレビ、フジテレビ、テレビ東京のドキュメンタリー番組制作を手掛けながらノンフィクション作品を発表。著書「チンチン電車と女学生」や「戦禍に生きた演劇人たち」はミュージカル化、舞台化されている。
2013年以降は執筆に専念し、講談社ノンフィクション賞、新潮ドキュメント賞、大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞をすべて異なる作品で受賞している。また、文部科学省芸術祭の審査委員や読売新聞社・読書委員、アジア・太平洋賞選考委員なども歴任している。
著作に関しては、「狼の義　新犬養木堂伝」は司馬遼太郎賞を受賞し、「透析を止めた日」は医療ノンフィクションとして異例のベストセラーとなっている。この作品は、夫の闘病記と透析医療の社会的な課題を自らルポしたもので、日本の緩和医療が、がん患者に限定され、多くの透析患者が過酷な終末期を迎えざるをえない現実について問題提起を行っている。
**Q&A**
Q：何をされた方ですか？
A：国民の健康と生活を守りながら緩和医療を進めるため、透析中止後の「緩和ケア病棟」加算や腎不全のみならず呼吸器系疾患へも緩和ケアを対象拡大するなど、「透析を止めた日」を機に始まった議論によって日本の緩和医療が非がん疾病へと拡大される一大転換期を迎えました。
Q：有名な作品は何ですか？
A：「チンチン電車と女学生」と「戦禍に生きた演劇人たち」です。これらの作品はミュージカル化、舞台化され、幅広い世代の人々に知れわたっています。
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English Summary
**“The fight of dialysis patients gives strength to the country”**
Journalist, documentary director, non-fiction writer. After graduating from Hiroshima University in 1992, Keiko Horikawa worked as a reporter at Hiroshima Television Broadcasting, leaving the company in 2004. After that, he moved to Tokyo and published non-fiction works while producing documentary programs for NHK, TV Asahi, Nippon Television, Fuji TV, and TV Tokyo. His books ``Chin Chin Train and Schoolgirls'' and ``Theater People Who Lived in the Disasters of War'' have been made into musicals and stage plays.
Since 2013, he has focused on writing and has won the Kodansha Nonfiction Award, the Shincho Document Award, and the Soichi Oya Nonfiction Award, all for different works. He has also served as a judge for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Arts Festival, as a member of the Yomiuri Shimbun's reading committee, and as a member of the Asia-Pacific Prize selection committee.
As for his writings, ``Wolf no Gi: Shininu Yokidoden'' won the Ryotaro Shiba Prize, and ``The Day I Stopped Dialysis'' became an unusual bestseller for medical non-fiction. This work is a personal report on her husband's battle with illness and the social issues surrounding dialysis treatment, and raises the issue of the reality that palliative care in Japan is limited to cancer patients, and that many dialysis patients are forced to face a harsh final stage.
**Q&A**
Q: What did you do?
In order to advance palliative care while protecting the health and lives of the people, we have reached a major turning point in Japan's palliative care, expanding it to include non-cancer diseases through discussions that began on ``The Day I Stopped Dialysis,'' such as adding a ``palliative care ward'' after stopping dialysis and expanding the scope of palliative care to include not only kidney failure but also respiratory diseases.
Q: What are your famous works?
``Chin Chin Train and Schoolgirls'' and ``Theater People Who Lived in the Disasters of War.'' These works have been made into musicals and stage plays, and have become well-known to people of a wide range of generations.
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