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Japanese writer

Minae Mizumura (水村 美苗, Mizumura Minae, born 1951) is a Japanese novelist.

In Minae's prologue (and post-script), the writer describes a woman caught between two worlds, one nostalgic for the country of her childhood.

The novel is structured into two major arcs that follow a course of one year in the life of Mitsuki Katsura, a middle-aged French language.

That is the story of Minae Mizumura, a distinguished Japanese novelist who has made her ambivalent feelings about English a central theme of her.

If the death of a writer makes a difference in the way we read him, one man- ifestation of such a difference may be the sudden urge we feel toward grasping.

Minae Mizumura is one of the most important writers in japan today.

Among other literary awards, she has won the Noma Literary New Face Prize and the Yomiuri Prize.

Early life

Born into a middle-class family in Tokyo, she moved to Long Island, New York at the age of twelve.

Her years of reading and re-reading European literature during her childhood in post war Japan, and modern Japanese literature while attending American high school, later became the foundation for her novels. After studying studio art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and French at Sorbonne in Paris, she went on to Yale College, majoring in French.

While still a student at Yale Graduate School, she published a critical essay, "Renunciation",^{[n 1]} on the writing of the literary critic Paul de Man upon his death. It was noticed^{[according to whom?]} as a precursor to later studies on de Man's work and launched her writing career.