Mayumi Inaba

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Mayumi Inaba (稲葉 真弓, Inaba Mayumi, 8 March 1950 – 30 August 2014) was a Japanese writer and poet. She won the

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Biography

Inaba was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1950.[1] Her writing career began when she was 16 and won a poetry competition sponsored by the magazine Bungei Shunjū. She soon began writing fiction and won the Prize for Young Female Authors in 1973 for her short story Aoi kage no itami wo (青い影の痛みを, The Pain of Blue Shadows). She was also awarded the Hirabayashi Taiko Prize for short story Koe no Shoufu (声の娼婦, The Voice Prostitute).[2] Inaba's short story Miru (海松), named after a type of seaweed commonly known as dead man's fingers, won the 2007 Yasunari Kawabata Prize for best short story.[3]

She died of pancreatic cancer at age 64.[4]

References

  1. ^ Japanese Literature Today (in French). Japan P.E.N. Club. 1996.
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  4. ^ 作家で詩人、稲葉真弓さん死去 Archived 2014-09-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)