Jun Henmi

Jun Henmi (辺見 じゅん, Henmi Jun, July 26, 1939 – September 21, 2011), real name Mayumi Shimizu (清水 眞弓, Shimizu Mayumi),[1] was a Japanese writer and poet born in Mizuhashi (now part of Toyama City), Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

She was known for her works of fiction and nonfiction about people affected by World War II.

Henmi also won two nonfiction literary awards for her 1989 work Farewell Notes from a Prison Camp (収容所から来た遺書, Shūyōjo kara Kita Isho) about notes received 10 years after World War II by the family of a man who died in a Russian prison camp in Siberia.

[2] Henmi died on September 21, 2011, after collapsing in her home in a Tokyo suburb.

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