Masayo Yamamoto

Masayo Yamamoto is a Japanese novelist. She is best known for her 1983, which won the Bungei Prize.

Biography
Yamamoto was born on August 18, 1960, in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. She attended Tsuda University, and her novel won the Bungei Prize while she was in school. Her novels, , and were all shortlisted for the Akutagawa Award, but did not win. In 1995 she won the Mishima Yukio Prize for her novel Midori-iro no Nigotta Ocha Arui wa Kōfuku no Sampo-michi (緑色の濁ったお茶あるいは幸福の散歩道).

Selected works

 * , 1983
 * , 1986
 * , 1987
 * Midori-iro no Nigotta Ocha Arui wa Kōfuku no Sampo-michi (緑色の濁ったお茶あるいは幸福の散歩道), 1995
 * , 1996