# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuko-tsushima
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:49:20.889Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuko-tsushima"
name: "Yūko Tsushima"
slug: "yuko-tsushima"
description: "Satoko Tsushima, known by her pen name Yūko Tsushima, was a Japanese fiction writer, essayist and critic. Tsushima won many of Japan's top literary prizes in her career, including the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Yomiuri Prize and the Tanizaki Prize. The New York Times called Tsushima \"one of the most important writers of her generation.\" Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages."
tagline: "Japanese author (1947–2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/An_Image_of_the_Late_Author_Y%C5%ABko_Tsushima%2C_Daughter_of_Osamu_Dazai.png"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-03-30"
deathDate: "2016-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.43325466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "يوكو تسوشيما"
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    title: "Յուկո Ցուշիմա"
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    title: "Цусима, Юко"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump