Atsuko Asano (writer)
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Mimasaka-cho, Aida District (now Mimasaka city),
Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Atsuko Asano | |
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| Born | September 14, 1954 Mimasaka-cho, Aida District (now Mimasaka city), Okayama Prefecture, Japan |
| Occupation | Author, novelist |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Aoyama Gakuin University |
| Period | 1991–present |
| Genre | Children's literature, period novel |
Atsuko Asano (Japanese: あさの あつこ, Hepburn: Asano Atsuko, born 1954 in Okayama Prefecture[1][2]) is a Japanese writer. She wrote the children's novel series Telepathy Shōjo Ran and the manga series The Manzai Comics.[3] She started writing children's novels when she was in college. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with the Bachelor of Letters degree.[4] After that, she worked as a temporary teacher of the elementary school in Okayama for two years.[5] She published Hotarukan monogatari as her first novel in 1991.[1][6] She is married to a dentist and they have two sons and a daughter.
Asano received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 for the book series Battery,[1] which has been adapted into a film.[7] The same series won the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005.[1] Her work frequently appears in literary magazines and she has also been featured in the Mainichi Shimbun.[8]
She is a supporter of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP).[9]
