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Kikuko Tsumura

Kikuko Tsumura (Japanese name: 津村記久子) is a Japanese writer from Osaka. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize.

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Sonoko Machida

Sonoko Machida (町田そのこ) nació en 1980 en Fukuoka (Japón). Comenzó su carrera en 2016 con el cuento Cameroon no aoi sakana (Pez azul en Camerún) por el que recibió el Premio R-18 que otorga la editorial Shinchosha. Publicada en abril de 2020 en Japón, 52 Hertz no kujira tachi (Las ballenas de 52 hercios) es su primera novela y ha obtenido el Premio de los Libreros de Japón en 2021.

Associated Names:
* Sonoko Machida (English)
* 町田そのこ (Japanese)
* มาจิดะ โซโนะโกะ (Thai)

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Kōtarō Isaka

Kōtarō Isaka (伊坂幸太郎, Isaka Koutarou) is a Japanese author of mystery fiction.

Isaka was born in Matsudo City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from the law faculty of Tohoku University, he worked as a system engineer. Isaka quit his company job and focused on writing after hearing Kazuyoshi Saito's 1997 song "Kōfuku na Chōshoku Taikutsu na Yūshoku", and the two have collaborated several times. In 2000, Isaka won the Shincho Mystery Club Prize for his debut novel Ōdyubon no Inori, after which he became a full-time writer.
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Ryo Asai

Ryo Asai (朝井リョウ ) began creating picture books at the age of six and writing stories while still in grade school; soon he was submitting manuscripts to new-writer contests as he dreamed of publishing a book of his own. He made his literary debut as a student at Waseda University, when his novel Kirishima, bukatsu yamerutte yo (Kirishima Says He's Quitting the Team) took the 2009 Shosetsu Subaru New Writers' Award. He has kept up a constant stream of publications since his debut. When his novel Nanimono (Somebody) was awarded the Naoki Prize for the second half of 2012, he was only 23, making him the youngest male author to have ever won the award. His other works include Chia danshi!! (Guy Cheerleaders!!), Mo ichido umareru (To Be Born Over

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Asako Yuzuki

Asako Yuzuki (柚木麻子, Yuzuki Asako) is a Japanese writer. She won the All Yomimono Prize for New Writers and the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize. Asako has been nominated multiple times for the Naoki Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio, and film.

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Kanako Nishi

Born in Tehran in 1977 and raised in Osaka Prefecture.

After graduating with a law degree from Kansai University, Nishi made her debut as a novelist with Aoi in 2004. Her sophomore novel Sakura became a best-seller next year. She is also known for her novels Tsutenkaku, Kofuku Midori no and Entaku.

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Michiko Aoyama

Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine editor in Tokyo. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than fifteen languages. She lives in Yokohama, Japan.

青山美智子 Japanese name
青山美智子 Chinese name

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Shion Miura

Shion Miura (三浦しをん) (1976–) , daughter of a well-known Japanese classics scholar, acquired her love of reading at a very young age. When, as a senior in the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University, she began her job hunt looking for an editorial position, a literary agent recognized her writing talent and hired her to begin writing an online book review column even before she graduated. Miura made her fiction debut a year after finishing college, in 2000, when she published the novel Kakuto suru mono ni maru (A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight), based in part on her own experiences during the job hunt. When she won the Naoki Prize in 2006 for her linked-story collection Mahoro ekimae Tada Benriken (The Handymen in Mahoro Town), she had not

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Riku Onda

Riku Onda (Japanese name: 恩田陸), born in 1964, is the professional name of Nanae Kumagai. She has been writing fiction since 1991 and has won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Japan Booksellers' Award, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel for The Aosawa Murders, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film and television. The Aosawa Murders was her first crime novel and the first time she was translated into English. It was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 2020.

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Naoki Hyakuta

Associated Names:
* Naoki Hyakuta
* 百田尚樹 (Japanese)
* 百田尚樹 (Chinese)

Naoki Hyakuta is a Japanese novelist and television producer. He is known for his right-wing political views and denying Japanese war crimes prior to and during World War II. He is particularly known for his 2006 novel The Eternal Zero, which became a popular 2013 film, his controversial period as a governor of government broadcaster NHK, as well as his support of Nanjing Massacre denial. Hyakuta has written a number of other books, several of which have been turned into films, such as Bokkusu and Monsuta.

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Yasushi Kitagawa

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Yuu Toyota

Name (in native language): 豊田悠

Chinese Name: 豐田悠

Associated Names:
You Toyota
Yu Toyota
丰田悠

Twitter account: @toyotayou

Pixiv: 豊田悠

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Mizuki Tsujimura

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* Mizuki Tsujimura
* 辻村深月 (Japanese)

Tsujimura is an award-winning novelist, she is best known for her mystery and children novels. She studied at Chiba University and won the Naoki Prize in 2012 for Kagi no nai Yume wo Miru (I Saw a Dream Without a Key), and in 2018 she won the Japan Booksellers' Award for her novel Kagami no Kojo (Lonely Castle in the Mirror).

Japanese name 辻村深月

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Mamita

Mamita (マミタ) is a Japanese manga author of BL genre.

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Soori Jeo

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* Soori Jeo
* J. Soori
* 저수리 (Korean Profile)

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Tomo Serizawa

Tomo Serizawa (芹澤知) is a Japanese manga artist of Boy's Love genre.

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Sonoko Machida

Sonoko Machida (町田そのこ) nació en 1980 en Fukuoka (Japón). Comenzó su carrera en 2016 con el cuento Cameroon no aoi sakana (Pez azul en Camerún) por el que recibió el Premio R-18 que otorga la editorial Shinchosha. Publicada en abril de 2020 en Japón, 52 Hertz no kujira tachi (Las ballenas de 52 hercios) es su primera novela y ha obtenido el Premio de los Libreros de Japón en 2021.

Associated Names:
* Sonoko Machida (English)
* 町田そのこ (Japanese)
* มาจิดะ โซโนะโกะ (Thai)

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Asako Yamashiro

One of the pen names of Otsuichi.

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Misumi Kubo

Misumi Kubo is a Japanese writer. She has won the R-18 Literary Award, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Yamada Fūtarō Prize, and she has twice been nominated for the Naoki Prize. Her work was adapted into the 2012 film The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky.

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Baku Yumemakura

Baku Yumemakura was born January 1st 1951 in Kanagawa, Japan. He graduated from Tokai University with a degree in Japanese literature. He debuted as an author in 1977, subsequently publishing a number of successful series including Psyche Diver, Chimera, and Hunting Master in addition many others. In 1989 he won Japan’s Science Fiction award for his novel, The Lion that Ate the Moon, and in 1998 won the 11th Shibata Renzaburo Award for God’s of the Mountain. His work, “Oyedo Chokakuden”, was awarded the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature in 2011 and in 2012 received the Yoshikawa Eiji award. In 2001, the manga adaptation of his seminal work, “Onmyoji”, won the 5th annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, while the adaptation of his work “Gods of t

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