Kazumi Yumoto
Kazumi Yumoto is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist.Life and career
Yumoto was born in Tokyo and graduated from Tokyo College of Music. She began writing scripts for opera and became a writer for television and radio. Her debut children's novel "The Friends" received the Newcomer Award from the Japan Children's Literature Association and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards in 1999. It was adapted to a movie in 1994, directed by Shinji Sōmai. Kishibe no Tabi, another of her books, was adapted to a film; directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, it won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2015 Cannes Festival.
Selected works
1992- The Friends 2=夏の庭 The Friends
1997- The Letters (2=ポプラの秋
2008- The Bear and the Wildcat 2=くまとやまねこ
2010- Kisishibe no Tabi
