*anese writer

Miyuki Miyabe (宮部みゆき, Miyabe Miyuki, born 1960) is a *anese writer of genre fiction. She has won numerous *anese literary awards, including the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature, the Shiba Ryotaro Prize, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been widely adapted for film, television, manga, and video games, and has been translated into over a dozen languages.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
• 3 Writing style
• 4 Awards
• 5 Bibliography
  • 5.1 Books in *anese
  • 5.2 Selected works in English
    • 5.2.1 Crime/thriller novels
    • 5.2.2 Fantasy novels
    • 5.2.3 Short stories
    • 5.2.4 Essay
• 6 Film and other adaptations
  • 6.1 Films
  • 6.2 Television
  • 6.3 Manga
• 7 See also
• 8 References
• 9 External links

Early life and education

Miyabe was born in Tokyo, *an in 1960. Her mother was a seamstress and her father was an *embly line worker at a factory. She graduated from Sumidagawa High School, then attended a business training school before taking an administrative job at a law office.

Career

Miyabe started writing novels at the age of 23. In 1984, while working at a law office, Miyabe began to take writing cl*es at a writing school run by the Kodansha publishing company. She made her literary debut in 1987 with 'Our Neighbour is a Criminal' "Warera ga rinjin no hanzai" (我らが隣人の犯罪), which won the 26th All Yomimono Mystery Novel Newcomer Prize and the *an Mystery Writers *ociation Prize. She has since written dozens of novels and won numerous literary prizes.

Miyabe's novel All She Was Worth (火車, Kasha), set at the beginning of *an's lost decade and telling the story of a Tokyo police inspector's search for a missing woman who might be an iden*y thief trying to get clear of debt, was published by Futabasha in 1992. The next year Kasha won the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, which is awarded for a new literary work that excels at storytelling in any genre. Kasha was adapted into a television movie by TV Asahi in 1994, then again in 2011. The *anese version of the book sold millions of copies. An English translation of Kasha, translated by Alfred Birnbaum, was published by Kodansha International under the *le All She Was Worth in 1997. Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times positively noted the relationship between the "spare style and measured pace" of Birnbaum's translation and the "somber tone of Miyuki's theme" of individual value in a consumerist economy, while Cameron Barr of The Christian Science Monitor wrote that the book's treatment of privacy and data tracking would leave the impression that "personal privacy is a rickety antique."

The Reason (理由, Riyū), a multiple perspective murder mystery set in Tokyo's Arakawa ward and written in the form of research interviews conducted in mostly polite language with the suspect, neighbors, and family members of the victims, was published in book form in 1998. Riyū won the 17th *an Adventure Fiction *ociation Prize in the *anese novel category that same year. In 1999 Riyū won the 120th Naoki Prize. Scholar Noriko Chino has described Riyū as "one of the masterpieces of postwar fictional social criticism." Riyū was adapted into a Nobuhiko Obayashi movie that was first shown on the Wowow television channel before its 2004 theatrical release.

Miyabe's novel Crossfire (クロスファイア, Kurosufaia), about a police detective pursuing a girl with pyrokinetic powers, was published in the same year as Riyū. It was adapted into the 2000 Toho film Pyrokinesis, starring Akiko Yada and Masami Nagasawa. An English version of Crossfire, translated by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Anna Husson Isozaki, was published in 2006, with Kirkus Reviews calling it "the most conventional of her three novels translated into English". In 2003 Kadokawa Shoten published Miyabe's fantasy novel Brave Story, a story about a boy with a troubled home life who finds a portal to another world. Brave Story became a bestseller in *an, and has since been adapted into an anime film, a manga series, and a series of video games. The English version of the novel, translated by Alexander O. Smith, won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award in 2008.

Writing style

Miyabe has written novels in several different genres, including science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and young adult literature. Outside of *an she is better known for her crime and fantasy novels. English translations of her work include Crossfire (クロスファイア), published in 1998, and Kasha (火車), translated by Alfred Birnbaum as All She Was Worth, published in 1999. Literary scholar Amanda Seaman called Kasha "a watershed moment in the history of women's detective fiction" that inspired "a new wave of women mystery writers."

A common theme in Miyabe's work is community, particularly the effects of consumerism in *anese society on family and community relationships.

Awards

• 1992 45th Mystery Writers of *an Award for Best Novel: The Sleeping Dragon
• 1992 13th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers: Honjo *agawa Fushigi-zōshi
• 1993 6th Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize: All She Was Worth
• 1997 18th *an SF Award: Gamōtei Jiken
• 1998 17th *an Adventure Fiction *ociation Prize: Riyū (The Reason)
• 1999 120th Naoki Prize (1998下): Riyū (The Reason)
• 2001 5th Shiba Ryotaro Prize: Puppet Master
• 2007 41st Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature: Namonaki Doku (Nameless Poison)
• 2008 Batchelder Award for Best Translated Children's Book: Brave Story

Bibliography

Books in *anese

• Pāfekuto burū (パーフェクト・ブルー, Perfect Blue), Tokyo Sogensha, 1989, ISBN:9784488023157
• Majutsu wa sasayaku (魔術はささやく), Shinchosha, 1989, ISBN:9784103750017
• Warera ga rinjin no hanzai (我らが隣人の犯罪), Bungeishunjū, 1990, ISBN:9784163115207
• Tōkyō satsujin boshoku (東京殺人暮色), Kobunsha, 1990, ISBN:9784334028671
• Reberu 7 (レベル7, Level 7), Shinchosha, 1990, ISBN:9784106027222
• Ryu wa nemuru (龍は眠る), Shuppan Geijutsusha, 1991, ISBN:9784882930303
• Honjo *agawa fushigi-zōshi (本所深川ふしぎ草紙), Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha, 1991, ISBN:9784404018144
• Henji wa iranai (返事はいらない), Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, 1991, ISBN:9784408531557
• Kamaitachi (かまいたち), Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha, 1992, ISBN:9784404018878
• Kon'ya wa nemurenai (今夜は眠れない, Heartache Tonight), Chuo Koronsha, 1992, ISBN:9784120020919
• Sunāku-gari (スナーク狩り, Snark Hunting), 1992, ISBN:9784334029845
• Kasha (火車, All She Was Worth), Futabasha, 1992, ISBN:9784575231175
• Nagai nagai satsujin (長い長い殺人), Kobunsha, 1992, ISBN:9784334922115
• Torinokosarete (とり残されて), Bungeishunjū, 1992, ISBN:9784163134802
• Suteppufazā suteppu (ステップファザー・ステップ, Stepfather Step), Kodansha, 1993, ISBN:9784062062169
• Furueru iwa (震える岩), Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha, 1993, ISBN:9784404020574
• Sabishii karyūdo (淋しい狩人, Lonesome Hunter), Shinchosha, 1993, ISBN:9784103750024
• Chikagai no ame (地下街の雨), Shueisha, 1994, ISBN:9784087740615
• Genshoku Edo-goyomi (幻色江戸ごよみ), Shinchosha, 1994, ISBN:9784101369198
• Yume ni mo omowanai (夢にも思わない)), Chuo Koronsha, 1995, ISBN:9784120024450
• Hatsu monogatari (初ものがたり), PHP Kenkyūjo, 1995, ISBN:9784569547855
• Hatobuesō (鳩笛草), Kobunsha, 1995, ISBN:9784334071530
• Hitojichi Canon (人質カノン, Hostage Canon), Bungeishunjū, 1996, ISBN:978-4163160702
• Gamōtei Jiken (蒲生邸事件), Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1996, ISBN:9784620105512
• Kannin bako (堪忍箱), Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha, 1996, ISBN:9784404024336
• Tengu kaze (天狗風), Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha, 1997, ISBN:9784404025449
• Kokoro torokasu yōna: Masa no jikenbo (心とろかすような マサの事件簿), Tōkyō Sōgensha, 1997, ISBN:9784488023546
• Riyū (理由, The Reason), Asahi Shinbunsha, 1998, ISBN:9784022572448
• Kurosufaia (クロスファイア, Crossfire), Kobunsha, 1998, ISBN:9784334073138
• Bonkura (ぼんくら), Kodansha, 2000, ISBN:9784062100885
• Ayashi (あやし), Kadokawa Shoten, 2000, ISBN:9784048732383　
• Mohōhan (模倣犯, The Copycat), Shogakkan, 2001, ISBN:9784093792646
• R.P.G. (Shadow Family), Shueisha, 2001, ISBN:9784087473490
• Dorīmu Basutā (ドリームバスター, Dream Buster) volumes 1-4, To*a Shoten, 2001–07, ISBN:9784198614423 (vol. 1)
• Akanbē (あかんべえ), PHP Kenkyūjo, 2002, ISBN:9784569620770
• Bureibu sutōrī (ブレイブ・ストーリー, Brave Story), Kadokawa Shoten, 2003, ISBN:9784048734455
• Dare ka (誰か, Somebody), Bungeishunjū, 2003, ISBN:9784408534497
• Iko: kiri no shiro (イコ:霧の城, Ico), Kodansha, 2004, ISBN:9784062124416
• Higurashi (日暮らし), Kodansha, 2005, ISBN:9784062127363 (vol. 1) ISBN:9784062127370 (vol. 2)
• Koshuku no Hito (孤宿の人), Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha, 2005, ISBN:9784404032577 (vol. 1) ISBN:9784404032584 (vol. 2)
• Na mo naki doku (名もなき毒, Nameless Poison), Gentōsha, 2006, ISBN:9784344012141
• Rakuen (楽園, Paradise), Bungeishunjū, 2007, ISBN:9784163262406 (vol. 1) ISBN:9784163263601 (vol. 2)
• Osoroshi:: Mishimaya henchō hya*onogatari kotohajime (おそろし 三島屋変調百物語事始), Kadokawa Shoten, 2008, ISBN:9784048738590
• Eiyū no sho (英雄の書, The Book of Heroes), Mainichi Shinbunsha, 2009, ISBN:9781421527758 (vol. 1) ISBN:9784620107349 (vol. 2)
• Kogure shashinkan (小暮写眞館), Kodansha, 2010, ISBN:9784062162227

Selected works in English

Crime/thriller novels

• All She Was Worth (original *le: Kasha), trans. Alfred Birnbaum, Kodansha International, 1996, ISBN:9784770019226
• Crossfire, trans. Deborah Iwabuchi and Anna Isozaki, Kodansha International, 2005, ISBN:9784770029935
• Shadow Family (original *le: R.P.G.), trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter, Kodansha International, 2005, ISBN:9784770030047
• The Devil's Whisper (original *le: Majutsu wa sasayaku), trans. Deborah Iwabuchi, Kodansha International, 2007, ISBN:9784770031174
• The Sleeping Dragon (original *le: Ryū wa nemuru), trans. Deborah Iwabuchi, Kodansha International, 2009, ISBN:9784770031044
• Puppet Master (original *le: Mohōhan), trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori, Creek & River Co., 2014–2016, released only in five ebook volumes

Fantasy novels

• Brave Story, trans. Alexander O. Smith, VIZ Fiction, 2007, ISBN:9781421511962
• The Book of Heroes (original *le: Eiyu no sho), trans. Alexander O. Smith, Haikasoru, 2009, ISBN:9781421527758
• Ico: Castle in the Mist, trans. Alexander O. Smith, Haikasoru, 2011, ISBN:9781421540634
• The Gate of Sorrows, trans. Jim Hubbert, Haikasoru, 2016, ISBN:9781421586526

Short stories

• "The Futon Room" (original *le: "Futon-beya"), trans. Stephen A. Carter, Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from *an, Volume 1: Tales of Old Edo, 2009
• Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo, trans. Daniel Huddleston, Haikasoru, 2013, ISBN:9781421567426
  • "A Drowsing Dream of Shinjū" (original *le: "Inemuri shinjū")
  • "Cage of Shadows" (original *le: "Kage rō")
  • "The Futon Storeroom" (original *le: "Futon-beya")
  • "The Plum Rains Fall" (original *le: "Ume no ame furu")
  • "The “Oni” of the Adachi House" (original *le: "Adachi ke no oni")
  • "A Woman's Head" (original *le: "Onna no kubi")
  • "The Oni in the Autumn Rain" (original *le: "Shigure Oni")
  • "Ash Kagura" (original *le: "Hai kagura")
  • "The Mussel Mound" (original *le: "Shijimi-zuka")
• "Chiyoko", Phantasm *an: Fantasies Light and Dark, From and About *an, 2014

Essay

• My Favourite Mystery, "An Incident" by Shohei Ooka (Mystery Writers of *an, Inc. )

Film and other adaptations

Films

• Pyrokinesis, Toho, 2000
• Mohōhan, Toho, 2002
• Brave Story, Gonzo, 2006
• Helpless, CJ E&M, 2012
• Solomon's Perjury, Shochiku, 2015

Television

• Shuku Satsujin (1988)
• Majutsu wa sasayaku (TV movie), NTV, 1990
• Saboten no Hana (1991)
• Unmei no Juko (based on "Snark Gari")(1992)
• Tatta Hitori (1992)
• Henshin (1993)
• Kasha: Kādo hasan no onna! (1994 TV movie)
• Isshun no Sinjitsu (1994)
• Level Seven (1994)
• Ryū wa Nemuru (1994)
• Iwazunioite (1997)
• Gamoutei Jiken, NHK, 1998
• Moshichi no Jikienbo (2001, 2002, 2003)
• R.P.G., NHK, 2003
• 理由 (TV movie), Wowow, 2004
• Nagai Nagai Satsujin (TV movie), Wowow, 2007
• Perfect Blue (TV movie), Wowow, 2010
• Hansai (Anthology episode), Fuji TV, 2010
• Majutsu wa sasayaku (TV movie), Fuji TV, 2011
• Kasha (TV movie), TV Asahi, 2011
• Stepfather Step, TBS, 2012
• Perfect Blue, TBS, 2012
• Riyū (TV movie), TBS, 2012
• Snark Gari (TV movie), TBS, 2012
• Nagai Nagai Satsujin (TV movie), TBS , 2012
• Level Seven (TV movie), TBS, 2012
• Samishii Kariudo (TV movie), Fuji TV, 2013
• Kogure Shashinkan, NHK, 2013
• Nomonaki Doku, TBS, 2013
• Petero no souretsu, TBS, 2014
• Osoroshi, NHK, 2014
• Sakura Housara, NHK, 2014
• Bonkura, NHK, 2014-2015
• 模倣犯 , TV Tokyo, 2016
• Solomon's Perjury, JTBC, 2016-2017
• Rakuen, Wowow, 2017

Manga

• Brave Story, 2007

See also

Portals:Children's literature*anNovelsSpeculative fiction

References

External links

• Miyuki Miyabe at J'Lit Books from *an
• Miyuki Miyabe at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Miyuki Miyabe at IMDb