Rio Shimamoto

Rio Shimamoto
Native name
島本 理生
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationWriter
LanguageJapanese
GenreFiction
Notable works
  • First Love
  • Little by Little
  • Silhouette
Notable awards
Website
shimamotorio.com

Rio Shimamoto (島本 理生, Shimamoto Rio) is a Japanese writer. She has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Noma Literary New Face Prize and the Naoki Prize, and her work has been adapted for film.