【Dread:】 Yoko Sano, author of "One million live cats" died

Best selling picture book "One million live catsYoko Sano, a picture book writer known as the author of ", died of breast cancer at 9:54 am on November 5 today. I was 72 years old.

He announced the essay vigorously in his later years, he seems to have revealed his cancer in that.

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Current affairs dot com: Yoko Sano Died = Picture book writer of 'One million live cats'

Yoko Sano, a picture book writer known for "One million live cats" of a bestseller picture book, seems to have died of breast cancer at 9:54 am on 5 November. I was 72 years old.

Born in Beijing in 1938 (Showa 13 years). After graduating from Musashino Art University graduate degree in designing, in Berlin's modeling universityLithographAfter learning and returning to the country, he played a wide range of activities in picture books, fairy tales, essays, translations and so on.

We announced in 1971 "Mr. Yagi's move」Debuted as a picture book writer. Published in 1977 "One million live cats"Is a cat's story that has repeated live and death one million times, it is a best seller that has become a hit of over 1.7 million copies, so many of you have taken in the hands. In addition to the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award "My hatAnd "Shogakkan Children's Publishing Culture Award" won "Hey DuWriting a lot of picture books such as "I wrote.

Ms. Sano is a poetShuntaro Tanigawa'S third marriage partner. I also received the Purple Ribbon Emblem in 2003.

Essay released in 2004 "There is neither God nor Buddha"Having received the Kobayashi Hideo Award, he also continued his activities vigorously, mainly in essays, in his later years. Looking back on living in recent years "Everyday days not availableIt is said that he confessed that he was cancer for the life expectancy of 2 years in 2008 (2008).