{{Short description|Japanese writer and poet}} {{Expand Japanese|topic=bio|稲葉真弓|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox writer | name = Mayumi Inaba | birth_date = {{birth date|1950|03|08|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2014|08|30|1950|03|08|df=y}} | occupation = Novelist, poet, university professor | period = 1973 – 2014 | pseudonym = Yumi Kurata ( 倉田 ゆみ )<br />Yuko Kurata ( 倉田 悠子 ) | native_name = 稲葉 真弓 | native_name_lang = ja | birth_name = Mayumi Hirano<br />平野 眞弓 | birth_place = Saya, Ama, Aichi, Occupied Japan | death_place = Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan | awards = Taiko-Hirabayashi Prize (1995)<br />Kawabata Prize (2008)<br />Tanizaki Prize (2011)<br />Shinran Prize (2012)<br />Medal of Honor, Purple ribbon (2014) }}
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{{Nihongo|'''Mayumi Inaba'''|稲葉 真弓|Inaba Mayumi|8 March 1950 – 30 August 2014}} was a Japanese writer and poet. She won the Tanizaki Prize in 2011 for her memoir ''To the Peninsula'' (半島へ). Her short story {{Nihongo3|Morning Comes Twice a Day|朝が二度くる|Asa ga nido kuru}} was translated into English by Lawrence Rogers for the collection ''Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll''.
==Biography== Inaba was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1950.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kgZIAAAAMAAJ |title=Japanese Literature Today |date=1996 |publisher=Japan P.E.N. Club. |language=fr}}</ref> Her writing career began when she was 16 and won a poetry competition sponsored by the magazine ''Bungei Shunjū''. She soon began writing fiction and won the Prize for Young Female Authors in 1973 for her short story {{Nihongo3|The Pain of Blue Shadows|青い影の痛みを|Aoi kage no itami wo}}. She was also awarded the Hirabayashi Taiko Prize for short story {{Nihongo3|The Voice Prostitute|声の娼婦|Koe no Shoufu}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rogers |first=Lawrence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fcss48aiARcC |title=Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll |date=2002-06-27 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-21788-1 |language=en}}</ref> Inaba's short story {{Nihongo3||海松|Miru}}, named after a type of seaweed commonly known as dead man's fingers, won the 2007 Yasunari Kawabata Prize for best short story.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IaecAAAAQBAJ |title=Britannica Book of the Year 2009 |date=2009-03-01 |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. |isbn=978-1-59339-232-1 |pages=269 |language=en}}</ref>
She died of pancreatic cancer at age 64.<ref>[http://sankei.jp.msn.com/life/news/140831/art14083123440007-n1.htm 作家で詩人、稲葉真弓さん死去] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903005728/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/life/news/140831/art14083123440007-n1.htm |date=2014-09-03 }} {{in lang|ja}}</ref>
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