Fumio Yamamoto

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 [ja] and the department of economics at Kanagawa University.^[1][4]

Yamamoto won the 1999 Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Authors [ja] 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]