Mari Yonehara

Mari Yonehara (Japanese米 原 万里, Yonehara Mari born April 29, 1950 in Tokyo, † 25 May, 2006 Kamakura ) was a famous Japanese writer.

Life

Her father Itaru Yonehara was Member of Parliament. The novelist Hisashi Inoue 's her brother. She spent her childhood in Czechoslovakia, where she studied Russian. Later she studied at the Tokyo University of Foreign Languages ​​- Russian and Russian literature; after which it was simultaneous interpreter and translator. From 1995 to 1997 she was chairman of the Russian translator company in Japan.

She received the Yomiuri Literary Prize for a report on the world of the interpreter. The Ōya - Soichi Prize for Literature nichtiktionale she received the work " The Absolute Truth of Anya, the liar " (嘘つき アーニャ の 真っ赤 な 真実). She also won several literary prizes for her books.

She was a leading member of the Japanese PEN Club.