is a Japanese novelist.

Biography

Mariko Koike is a popular detective and horror novelist. Koike was born in Tokyo and graduated from Seikei University. Her first collection of essays was ''Recommendations to Women of the World'' and it became a bestseller. She has been a novelist since her novel came out in 1986. Several of her novels have been translated in to English by Deborah Boliver Boehm. She lived with her husband writer

Yoshinaga Fujita was a Japanese novelist and screenwriter. Prizes Fujita was the 125th recipient of the Naoki Prize in 2001 Novels * '' Adrift in Tokyo'' (Japanese title 転々, ''tenten'') * ''A Laughing Frog'' (Warau Kaeru) * ''Territory of Love'' (愛の領 ...

until his death on 30 January 2020. They lived in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture.

Awards

*1989 Japan Mystery Writers' Association Prize, for Tsuma no Onnatomodachi (My Wife's Female Friend) *1996

Naoki Prize The Naoki Prize, officially , is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the ''Bungeishunjū'' magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo. Sponsored by the Society for the ...

, for Koi (Love) *1998 Shimase Romance Literary Prize

Bibliography

*The Graveyard Apartment. (one of the most read) *A Cappella. *The Cat In The Coffin.

References and sources

1952 births Living people Writers from Tokyo Japanese women novelists 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists Japanese mystery writers Japanese crime fiction writers Mystery Writers of Japan Award winners Japanese detective fiction writers Japanese horror writers Japanese essayists Seikei University alumni {{Japan-writer-stub