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Mayumi Inaba (1950-2014) was a Japanese writer, editor and poet. She made her debut in 1973 with the short story 'The Pain of Blue Shadows', and she went on to write many novels and collections for which she won several awards, including the Kawabata Yasunari Prize. She was awarded the Tanizaki Prize for To the Peninsula. Inaba was well known for her love of cats. Ginny Tapley Takemori is an award-winning translator based in rural Japan. She has translated works by writers including Sayaka
Murata, Kyoko Nakajima, and Mayumi Inaba. |
