Shino Sakuragi

Shino Sakuragi (桜木 紫乃) is a Japanese writer. She has won the All Yomimono Prize for New Writers, the Shimase Award for Love Stories, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film and television.

Early life
Sakuragi was born in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan in 1965 to parents who owned and ran a local barbershop. After graduating from high school she worked as an official court typist until she got married at the age of 24, then had her first child at age 27 before starting to write in her early 30s.

Career
She won the 2002 All Yomimono Prize for New Writers for her short story "Snow Bugs" (雪虫), but her first book, a short story collection titled Frozen Horizon (氷平線), did not appear in print until 2007. In 2010 her book Reed of Glass (硝子の葦) was published by Shinchosha, which also published Loveless (ラブレス) the next year. Loveless won the 19th Shimase Award for Love Stories in 2012 and was nominated for the 146th Naoki Prize, but the prize went to Rin Hamuro. Garasu no ashi was later adapted into a Wowow television drama starring Saki Aibu. In 2012 Sakuragi's short story collection Terminals (起終点駅 (ターミナル)) was published by Shogakukan. Kishūteneki Tāminaru was later adapted into the film Kishūteneki Terminal, which premiered at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival.

Sakuragi won the 149th Naoki Prize for her 2013 book Hotel Royal (ホテルローヤル), a set of stories told in reverse chronological order about a love hotel in her hometown of Kushiro, Hokkaido. The short story collections Blues (ブルース) and Stars (星々たち) were published in 2014, followed by the 2015 novels Mist (霧) and Don't Call That Love (それを愛とは呼ばず). In 2016 Sakuragi's novel Tracks in the Ice (氷の轍), about the investigation of an elderly man's death on a Hokkaido beach, was published by Shogakukan and adapted into a TV Asahi television movie starring Ko Shibasaki. Her novel Sajō (砂上), a partly autobiographical story about a writer and editor, was published by Kadokawa Shoten in 2017.

Personal life
Sakuragi is a fan of Golden Bomber. She lives with her family in Ebetsu, Hokkaido.

Recognition

 * 2002 All Yomimono Prize for New Writers
 * 2012 19th Shimase Award for Love Stories
 * 2013 149th Naoki Prize (2013上)

Film and other adaptations

 * Kishūteneki Terminal, 2015
 * Garasu no ashi, Wowow, 2015
 * Kōri no wadachi, TV Asahi, 2016

Works

 * Burial (風葬), Bungeishunjū, 2008, ISBN 9784163275703
 * Tundra (凍原), Shogakukan, 2009, ISBN 9784093862646
 * Koi-hada (恋肌), Kadokawa Shoten, 2009, ISBN 9784048740111
 * Reed of Glass (硝子の葦), Shinchosha, 2010, ISBN 9784103277217
 * One More (ワン・モア), Kadokawa Shoten, 2011, ISBN 9784041100578
 * Loveless (ラブレス), Shinchosha, 2011, ISBN 9784103277224
 * Terminals (起終点駅 (ターミナル)), Shogakukan, 2012, ISBN 9784093863186
 * Nobody Blooms at Night (誰もいない夜に咲く), Kadokawa Shoten, 2013, ISBN 9784041006528
 * Area of innocence (無垢の領域), Shinchosha, 2013, ISBN 9784103277231
 * Dakōsuru tsuki (蛇行する月), Futabasha, 2013, ISBN 9784575238358
 * Hotel Royal (ホテルローヤル), Shūeisha, 2013, ISBN 9784087714920
 * Blues (ブルース), Bungeishunjū, 2014, ISBN 9784163901794
 * Stars (星々たち), Jitsugyō no Nihonsha, 2014, ISBN 9784408536453
 * Mist (霧), 2015, Shogakukan, ISBN 9784093864206
 * ''Don't Call That Love (それを愛とは呼ばず)', 2015, Gentosha, ISBN 9784344027336
 * Tracks in the Ice (氷の轍), Shogakukan, 2016, ISBN 9784093864503
 * Sajō (砂上), Kadokawa Shoten, 2017, ISBN 9784041046005