Yūko Tsushima
1947
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2016
country of citizenship: Japan
native language: Japanese
languages spoken, written or signed: Japanese
educated at: Shirayuri Women's University, Meiji University
occupation: writer, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, prosaist
Satoko Tsushima (30 March 1947 – 18 February 2016), known by her pen name Yūko Tsushima (津島 佑子 Tsushima Yūko), was a Japanese fiction writer, essayist and critic. Tsushima won many of Japan's top literary prizes in her career, including the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Yomiuri Prize and the Tanizaki Prize. The New York Times called Tsushima "one of the most important writers of her generation." Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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