Mari Yonehara

Japanese translator.

Born April 29th, 1950 in Tokyo.

Died May 25th, 2006 at 56 years old in Kamakura (ovarian cancer).

Occupations
essayist, novelist, translator, writer
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel