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Profile of Miyuki Miyabe
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23rd December 1960 |
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Tokyo, Japan |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Miyabe Miyuki (宮部ã¿ã‚†ã, December 23, 1960 - ) is a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres including science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and juvenile fiction. Her most famous translated work is All She Was Worth (ç«è»Š Kasha), published in translation in 1999. Shadow Family (original title: R.P.G.) is scheduled to be published in translation in February 2005.
Miyabe was born in the KÅtÅ ward of Tokyo, Japan and graduated from Sumidagawa High School. She started writing novels at the age of 23. In 1984, while working at a law office, Miyabe began to take writing classes at a writing school run by the KÅdansha publishing company. Her debut work is considered to be her 1987 short story Warera ga Rinjin no Hanzai (我らãŒéš£äººã®çŠ¯ç½ª) and has been a prolific writer since then, publishing dozens of novels and winning many major literary prizes including the Yamamoto ShÅ«gorÅ Prize in 1993 for All She Was Worth and the Naoki Prize in 1998 for RiyÅ« (ç†ç”±).
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