(1980-02-29) February 29, 1980 (age 44) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
Occupation
Novelist
Language
Japanese
Alma mater
Chiba University
Genre
Fiction, mystery fiction children's literature
Notable works
Kagi no nai yume wo miru (鍵のない夢を見る)
A School Frozen in Time (冷たい校舎の時は止まる, Tsumetai Kōsha no Toki wa Tomaru)
Tsunagi (ツナグ)
Notable awards
Naoki Prize
Mephisto Prize
Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers
Mizuki Tsujimura (辻村深月, Tsujimura Mizuki, born February 29, 1980)[1] is a Japanese writer from Fuefuki, Yamanashi.[2]
Tsujimura specializes in mystery novels. She writes both for adults and children.[3]
She has been writing mystery novels from since she was a high school student, and she decided to go to Chiba University because there was a mystery research group in this university. She made her debut with her novel A school Frozen in time in 2004.[4]
Tsujimura is the winner of the 2018 Japan Booksellers' Award for her novel Lonely Castle in the Mirror.[5] After being shortlisted several times for the Naoki Prize, she finally received the 2012 Naoki Prize for Kagi no nai Yume wo Miru (I Saw a Dream Without a Key)[1][6]
She professes herself to be a fan of Doraemon[4] and wrote the screenplay for the Doraemon movie "Nobita no Getsumen Tansaki (Nobita's Lunar Exploration)"[7] and its novel[8] version in 2018.
^ ab"Mizuki Tsujimura". Books from Japan. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
^市川, 由佳子 (April 24, 2018). "本屋大賞の辻村深月さん、同級生だった書店員の言葉に涙" (in Japanese). Retrieved June 18, 2018.
^Doi, Yasuko (2017). "Chapter 40: The Moribito series and its relation to trends in Japanese children's literature". In Stephens, John (ed.). The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature. Routledge. ISBN 9781317676065.
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