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. She released her debut novel, ''Rizumu'' (''Rhythm''), in 1990, winning the Kodansha Award of Children's Literature for Newcomers. Her other works include ''Uchu no minashigo'' (''Slight Light Little Star'' or ''Orphans of the Universe'', 1994, winner of the

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New Author Award), ''Tsuki no fune'' (''Moon Ship'', 1998, winner of the Noma Literary Prize), and ''Kazeni maiagaru biniru shito'' (''Plastic Sheet Soaring in the Wind'', 2006, winner of the

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). Her 1998 novel ''Karafuru'' (''Colorful'', winner of the Sankei Children's Book Award) has been adapted into three films (including the 2010 animated '' Colorful'' and the 2018 Thai adaptation ''

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''). Her four-volume series ''Daibu!!'' ('' Dive!!'', 2000–2002, winner of the Shogakukan Award for Children's Literature) has been adapted into a

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Bibliography

Contributions

* ' ("Hikari no Tane"), Suirinsha, 2022,

Translated works

*, 1998 (English translation: ''Colorful'',

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, 2021)

References

20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists Japanese women novelists Writers from Tokyo Naoki Prize winners 1968 births Living people 21st-century Japanese women writers 20th-century Japanese women writers Waseda University alumni {{Japan-writer-stub