Fumio Yamamoto (13 November 1962 – 13 October 2021) was a Japanese author.

She was born on 13 November 1962[1] in Yokohama,[2] as Akemi Omura.[3] She graduated from Yokohama-Seiryo Senior High School and the department of economics at Kanagawa University.[1][4]

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.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "【プロフィール】". 山本文緒インフォメーション. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  2. ↑ 山本文緒 (22 December 2007). "ゆうゆうLife 作家・山本文緒さん（45）（上）". 産経新聞社 (Interview). Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Naoki Prize-winning novelist Fumio Yamamoto passes away at 58". The Mainichi. 18 October 2021. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "鬱病から復帰の山本文緒氏「病前のことは遠い前世の出来事」 | マイナビニュース". Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2018.


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