Fumio Yamamoto (13 November 1962 – 13 October 2021) was a Japanese author.

She was born on 13 November 1962[1] in Yokohama,[2] as Akemi Omura.[3] She graduated from Yokohama-Seiryo Senior High School [ja] and the department of economics at Kanagawa University.[1][4]

Yamamoto won the 1999 Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Authors [ja] for Loveholic. Her novel Planaria was awarded the Naoki Prize. Yamamoto died on 13 October 2021 of pancreatic cancer in Karuizawa, Nagano, aged 58.[3]

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  2. ^ 山本文緒 (22 December 2007). "ゆうゆうLife 作家・山本文緒さん(45)(上)". 産経新聞社 (Interview). Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Naoki Prize-winning novelist Fumio Yamamoto passes away at 58". The Mainichi. 18 October 2021. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  4. ^ "鬱病から復帰の山本文緒氏「病前のことは遠い前世の出来事」 | マイナビニュース". Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2018.