Award-winning author Tomie Ohara dies at 87

Award-winning author Tomie Ohara dies at 87

TOKYO, Japan - Award-winning author Tomie Ohara, who died of heart failure Jan. 27 at a Tokyo hospital, is shown in this file photo. Ohara, who was 87, gained greatest recognition for her novel describing the anguished life of a woman during the Edo period. In 1960, Ohara won the Noma Literary Award for her novel ''En to iu Onna'' (A Woman Named En). The novel depicted the life of En Nonaka, who spent about 40 years in confinement after her father was charged with rebelling against the ruling Tokugawa shogunate.

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