Kurahashi, Yumiko (1935–)
Kurahashi, Yumiko (1935–)
Japanese novelist and short-story writer. Born 1935 in Shikoku, Japan; received degree in French from Meiji University.
Writings, which range from realism to satire and surrealism and draw on Japanese folk tales, Greek myth, and Noh tradition, include Partei (1960), A Dark Travel (1963), The Adventures of Sumiyakist Q (1969), The Floating Bridge of Dreams (1971), A Castle Among Castles (1980), Exchange (1989) and The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories (1997).
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