Riku Onda
is the professional name of , a Japanese writer. Onda has won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Japan Booksellers' Award, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film and television. Early life and education Onda was born in 1964 in Aomori, Japan but raised in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture. She graduated from Waseda University in 1987 and worked in an office for several years, then quit her job to try writing a novel after reading Ken'ichi Sakemi's 1991 novel '. Career Onda made her literary debut in 1992 with the novel ', which was adapted into the 2000 NHK show ' starring Anne Suzuki and Chiaki Kuriyama. More novels and adaptations followed, including the 1999 novel ', which was adapted into a 2002 film, and the 2000 novel ', which was adapted into a 2001 TBS television series starring Tsubasa Imai. In 2005 Onda won the 26th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers and the 2nd ...
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