, born 16 March 1956, is a Japanese writer who describes her writing as '

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Biography

Yoriko Shono (real name Yoriko Ishikawa) was born in

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, grew up in

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and studied in the Law Department at

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. She started writing while she was at university, and made her debut with the story "Gokuraku" in 1981, but was not published again until her 1991 collection ''Nani mo Shitenai'', which won the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers. She really began to draw attention in 1994 when her story "Ni Hyaku Kaiki" won the

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, and another story, "Time Slip Kombinat" won the

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in the same year. For winning these three prizes she became known as the 'new writer's prize triple crown winner.'

Selected works

* ''Nani mo Shitenai'' (1991) * ''Ni Hyaku Kaiki'' (1994) * ''Time Slip Kombinat'' (1994) ** excerpt in Englis
“Time Warp Complex”
* ''Gokuraku'' (1994) * ''Haha no Hattatsu'' (1996) * ''Yūkai Morimusume Ibun'' (2001) * ''Suishōnai Seido'' (2003)

References

External links

J'Lit , Authors : Yoriko Shono* , Books from Japan
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