Novelist Ayako Miura dies

Novelist Ayako Miura dies

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - File photo shows Ayako Miura, writer of best-selling novel ''Hyoten'' (Freezing Point), who died Oct. 12 of multiple organ failure at a hospital in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. She was 77.

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