Mariko Koike

Mariko Koike (小池 真理子, Koike Mariko, born 28 October 1952) is a Japanese novelist.

Mariko Koike
Born (1952-10-28) October 28, 1952
Tokyo
NationalityJapanese
SpouseYoshinaga Fujita

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 until his death on 30 January 2020. They lived in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Awards
  • 1989 Japan Mystery Writers' Association Prize, for Tsuma no Onnatomodachi (My Wife's Female Friend)
  • 1996 Naoki Prize, 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
  1. "Mariko Koike - AUTHOR - Translation Works". Japanese Literature Publishing Project:JLPP. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  2. "The Graveyard Apartment - Mariko Koike". US Macmillan. 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  3. Brown, Alex (2016-10-12). "Dead and Buried: The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike". Tor.com. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  4. "作家の読書道：第56回 小池 真理子". www.webdoku.jp (in Japanese).
  5. "【小池真理子】「沈黙のひと」で吉川英治文学賞 "人は愛おしい"亡き父と向き合い実感". ZAKZAK (in Japanese). 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  6. "小池真理子 - 著者プロフィール". 新潮社 (in Japanese). 2018-11-01. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  7. Koike, M. (2016). The Graveyard Apartment: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-4668-6582-2. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  8. "Mariko Koike". Penguin House. 2020-01-28. Retrieved 2020-02-03.


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