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Nashiki Kaho

Kaho Nashiki (梨木香歩)born in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1959 is a Japanese writer of children's literature, picture books, and novels. Nashiki graduated from Doshisha University and studied abroad at a language school in Saffron Walden, England.

Nashiki`s first major work, "Nishi no Majo ga Shinda," is a short novel about a young girl`s recollection of her last summer spent with her grandmother in rural Japan. The relationship between mothers, granddaughters, and grandmothers is a recurring theme in her later novels. In 1995, this work received the Niiminankichi Children`s Literature Award and the Shogakkan Children`s Publication Award. A movie adaptation of "Nishi no Majo ga Shinda" premiered in 2008.

She has also published commentary pieces in the complete works of Gabriel García Márquez, published by Shinchosha in Japanese.

Novels


 * "Nishi no Majo ga Shinda" (The Witch of West is Dead)
 * "Angel Angel Angel"
 * "Uraniwa" (The Rear Garden)
 * "Karakurikarakusa"
 * "Rika-san"
 * "Iemamori Kitan"
 * "Numachi no aru mori wo nukete" (Escaping the Marshland in the Wood), Murasaki Shikibu Award, Sense of Gender Award, 2005