Yuko Tsushima

Yuko Tsushima is the pen name of Satoko Tsushima, the Japanese fiction writer, essayist and critic who wrote under that name until her death in 2016. Her novels include Territory of Light, which follows a young Tokyo mother raising her daughter alone after her husband leaves, along with Child of Fortune, Of Dogs and Walls and Woman Running in the Mountains. Tsushima won many of Japan's top literary prizes, among them the Tanizaki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize and the Noma Literary Prize.