Kazumi yumoto biography of mahatma gandhi

Born 1959, in Tokyo, Japan.

Education: Tokyo University of Music, degree in composition.

Agent—Japan Foregin Rights Centre, 2-27-18 Nakaochiai 2-chome, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 161-0032, Japan.

Batchelder award and Boston Globe-Horn Book award for fiction, both 1997, both for The Friends.

The Friends, translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1996.

The Spring Tone, translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1999.

The Letters, translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2002.

The Friends, The Spring Tone, and The Letters have all been recorded as audio books.

Kazumi Yumoto' novels speak to the universal nature of human feelings while also capturing elements of Japanese urban culture.