Fumio Yamamoto
Japanese writer and novelist
Fumio Yamamoto (13 November 1962 – 13 October 2021) was a Japanese author.
She was born on 13 November 1962 in Yokohama, as Akemi Omura. She graduated from Yokohama-Seiryo Senior High School and the department of economics at Kanagawa University.
Yamamoto won the 1999 Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Authors for Loveholic. Her novel Planaria was awarded the Naoki Prize. Yamamoto died on 13 October 2021 of pancreatic cancer in Karuizawa, Nagano, aged 58.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q11258480. VIAF identifies the subject as 83589007. The Library of Congress control number is no2009038376. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962, 2021 and 1999.
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