Rie Yoshiyuki

 was a Japanese poet and novelist. She won the Noma Literary Children's Literature New Face Prize, the Women's Literature Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.
Biography.
Early life.
Her father was the author Eisuke Yoshiyuki. Her mother was Aguri Yoshiyuki, a beauty shop owner whose autobiography was adapted into an NHK television series. Her older brother Junnosuke was also a novelist and her older sister Kazuko is an actress. She graduated from the department of literature at Waseda University in 1961.
Career.
Yoshiyuki's first poetry collection was published in 1963, titled . She won the Tamura Toshiko Prize for another collection, , which was published in 1967.
Her children's novel was published in 1970 and won the 9th Noma Literary Children's Literature New Face Prize. In 1981 she won the Akutagawa Prize for . In 1989 she won the Women's Literature Prize for ".
Yoshiyuki died in Tokyo on May 4, 2006 of thyroid cancer.