Ayako Miura

Ayako Miura
三浦綾子
Ayako Miura in 1966
Born	(1922-04-25)25 April 1922 Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Empire of Japan
Died	12 October 1999(1999-10-12) (aged 77)
Citizenship	Japanese
Occupation	Novelist

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Ayako Miura (三浦綾子, Miura Ayako, 25 April 1922 – 12 October 1999) was a Japanese novelist. She published over eighty works of both fiction and non-fiction. Many of her works are considered best-sellers, and a number have been remade as feature-length films.

Her debut novel, Hyōten (氷点, "Freezing Point"), was published in 1964, and won the Asahi Shimbun's Ten Million Yen Award that same year.