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Natsuo Kirino

(1951) Novelist Japan

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Natsuo Kirino is a novelist from Japan, best known for Out.

Quick Facts About Natsuo Kirino

Born: October 7, 1951
Nationality: Japan
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: Out

About Natsuo Kirino

Natsuo Kirino is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.

Awards & Honors

Naoki Prize Edogawa Rampo Award Yomiuri Prize Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature Tanizaki Prize Murasaki Shikibu Prize Japan Art Academy Prize Mainichi art award

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Shibata Renzaburō Award Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature Shimase Romantic Literature Prize Medal with Purple Ribbon

Quotes by Natsuo Kirino · Page 2

It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as…

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I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes…

Abstract

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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

Anonymous

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One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize…

Books

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“This didn't make me sad exactly - it was more a feeling that my own world was too simple, too smooth, too…

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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to…

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Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.

Friend

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“If the old man looked at straight lines to keep his act together, I was going to stare at curved lines and…

Old man

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“I clearly wasn’t in the inner circle, nor was I a member of the orbiters. I wasn’t sure if I even fit…

Celestial bodies

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“Walk around Tokyo and all you see are people trying to sell you something. Tell them okay and before you know you…

Failure

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“When high school girls like us freak out, people are always able to overpower us before we do something stupid, like hijacking…

High school

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“Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men…

Daughter

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I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I…

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“As a child I first became aware that my existence had a purpose when I realized men lusted after me. And that's…

Children

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For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her…

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“So something that never should have happened did, all because of my thoughts and actions. A clear-cut cause-and-effect relationship. I was the…

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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a…

Age

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