Yoshimi Usui

Yoshimi Usui (臼井吉見, Usui Yoshimi, June 17, 1905 – July 12, 1987) was a Japanese writer and critic from Azumino, Nagano prefecture.

Usui won the 1974 10th Tanizaki Prize for Azumino (安曇野).

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.

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