Michio Mado

was a Japanese poet. He won the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1994 for his "lasting contribution to children's literature".

Mado was born as Michio Ishida in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi prefecture. He died on February 28, 2014, aged 104.

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 Mado dies

Category:1909 births
Category:2014 deaths
Category:Children's writers
Category:Japanese centenarians
Category:Japanese poets
Category:People from Yamaguchi Prefecture