Miyuki Miyabe

Miyuki Miyabe is a Japanese genre novelist who moves between crime fiction, fantasy and historical stories without treating any of them as a holiday from the others. She has won most of the major Japanese literary prizes, among them the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature, the Shiba Ryotaro Prize, the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film, television, manga and video games and translated into more than a dozen languages. The crime novels share a preoccupation with consumer debt, family obligation and the paperwork of ordinary Japanese life, which is where she finds most of her horror.