Mayumi InabaMayumi Inaba (1950–2014) was a Japanese writer, editor and poet. She made her debut in 1973 with the short story ‘The Pain of Blue Shadows’, and she went on to write many novels and collections for which she won several awards, including the Kwabata Yasunari Prize. She was awarded the Tanizaki Prize for To the Peninsula. Inaba was well known for her love of cats. Read More Read Less