Teru Miyamoto (宮本 輝, Miyamoto Teru, born March 6, 1947) is a Japanese author.

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Miyamoto was born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan and graduated from the faculty of letters at Otemon Gakuin University after which he became a copywriter. In 1970, he began to write his first novel and quit his job. Although he later joined another company, he quit again in 1972.

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  • Doro no Kawa (1977)
  • Hotarugawa (1978)
  • Kinshu (1982) Translated into English in 2005 with the title Kinshu: Autumn Brocade
  • Hana no Furu Gogo (1988)
  • In 1995 his novel Maboroshi no Hikari was made into a film by director Hirokazu Koreeda. The English release is entitled Maborosi.

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