Ayako Miura

was a Japanese novelist. She published over eighty works of both fiction and non-fiction. Many of her works are considered best-sellers, and a number have been remade as feature-length films.

Her debut novel, ''Hyōten'' (氷点, "Freezing Point"), was published in 1964, and won the ''Asahi Shimbun'''s Ten Million Yen Award that same year. Provided by Wikipedia