Ohara, Tomie (b. 1912)

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Ohara, Tomie (b. 1912)

Japanese novelist. Born 1912 in Kochi prefecture, Japan.

Works include A Cold Rain (1935), Soldier Going to the Front (1938), Deafness from Streptomycin (1956), A Woman Called En (1960), which won the Noma Prize for Literature and Mainichi Prize, A Woman Traveling on the Earth, and The Camp of Abraham.

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