Yoshimi Usui
Yoshimi Usui was a Japanese author and critic from Azumino, Nagano prefecture.
Usui won the 1974 10th Tanizaki Prize for Azumino.
In 1977 he published a novelised account of Kawabata's death that led to a law-suit against him by the Nobel Prize-winner's family.Selected works
- Hōjōki. Tsurezuregusa. Ichigon hōdanshu, Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1970.
- Hitotsu no kisetsu, 1975.
- Butai no ue de, 1976.
- Genjitsu no gyoshi, Tōkyo : Ie no Hikari Kyokai, 1976.
- Tsuchi to furusato no bungaku zenshū, 15 volumes, 1976-1977.
- Jikō no tenmatsu, 1977.
- Jibun o tsukuru, Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1979.
- Shohan, Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1985.
