Atsuko Asano
Atsuko Asano was born 1954 in Okayama Prefecture is a Japanese writer. She wrote the children's novel series Telepathy Shōjo Ran and the manga series The Manzai Comics. She started writing children's novels when she was in college.
Atsuko Asano
- Name
- Atsuko Asano
- Born
- 14 September 1954
- Birthplace
- Mimasaka-cho, Aida District (now Mimasaka city), Okayama Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- Author, novelist
- Education
- Aoyama Gakuin University
- Nationality
- Japan
- Honours
- Shimase Romantic Literature Prize · Noma award for children's literature
- Languages
- Japanese
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Atsuko Asano was born 1954 in Okayama Prefecture is a Japanese writer. She wrote the children's novel series Telepathy Shōjo Ran and the manga series The Manzai Comics. She started writing children's novels when she was in college.
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Atsuko Asano (born 1954) is a novelist and writer, of Japanese nationality. The novelist was born in Mimasaka. Atsuko Asano was educated at Aoyama Gakuin University.
Languages used include Japanese. Honours include Noma award for children's literature and Shimase Romantic Literature Prize.
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Biography
She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with the Bachelor of Letters degree. After that, she worked as a temporary teacher of the elementary school in Okayama for two years. She published Hotarukan monogatari as her first novel in 1991. She is married to a dentist and they have two sons and a daughter. Asano received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 for the book series Battery, which has been adapted into a film. The same series won the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005. Her work frequently appears in literary magazines and she has also been featured in the Mainichi Shimbun. She is a supporter of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP).
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Key facts
• Name — Atsuko Asano • Born — 14 September 1954 • Birthplace — Mimasaka-cho, Aida District (now Mimasaka city), Okayama Prefecture, Japan • Occupation — Author, novelist • Period — 1991–present • Genre — Children's literature, period novel • Education — Aoyama Gakuin University
Works
Works
• "Kamigami no Utatane" • "Girls Blue 2" • "Girls Blue" • "Yume Utsutsu" • "The Manzai Comics #1–6" • "Asano Kodomo no Omochabako" • "Neko no Neko-san" • "Telepathy Shōjo Ran" • "Arifureta Fūkeiga" • "Sasayaka na Monogatari-tachi" • "Kimi ni Okuru Tsubasa Monogatari" • "Matteru" • "Last Inning" • "Kaze no Yakata no Monogatari" • "Ashita Fukukaze" • "Shin Hotarukan Monogatari" • "Hotarukan Monogatari" • "Iede de Densha wa Ganbarimasu" • "Miroku no Tsuki" • "Erina no Aoi Sora" • "Vivace" • "Kimi ga Mitsukeru Monogatari" • "Miyama Monogatari" • "Fukushū Planner" • "Konjiki no Nobe ni Utau" • "Battery #1–7" • "Field, wind" • "Tabidachi" • "Chūgakusei no Kimochi" • "Iede Densha wa Koshōchu?" • "Yōkai Henka" • "Jūni no Uso to Jūni no Shinjitsu" • "Yasha-zakura" • "Jūni-sai Deai no Kisetsu" • "Banka no Playball" • "Runner" • "Fukuin no Shōnen" • "Sugu Kakeru Dokushō Kansōbun" • "Nani yori mo Taisetsu na Koto" • "Bokura no Shinrei Spotto" • "Natsu-yasumi" • "Chi ni Umorete" • "Jikū Hunter Yuki" • "Hint?" • "Tōmei na Tabiji to" • "Tanpopo Akichi no Tsukinowa" • "Dobapyon" • "Love Letter" • "Mai wa Jussai desu" • "No. 6"
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- 1."Battery(6 volumes)." Japanese Board on Books for Young People. Retrieved on February 26, 2009.
- 2."「バッテリー １～６」 あさのあつこさん." Yomiuri Online. February 22, 2005. Retrieved on February 26, 2009.
- 3."Telepathy Shōjo Ran Novels Animated for TV in Japan." Anime News Network. December 26, 2007. Retrieved on February 26, 2009.
- 4.バッテリー あさのあつこ . April 2006. Retrieved on October 15, 2009.
- 5.『あさのあつこ完全読本』2005年 河出書房新社
- 6.あさのあつこ カドカワード.jp . Retrieved on October 15, 2009.
- 7."バッテリー ." Variety Japan. Retrieved on February 26, 2009.
- 8.""Take the test for your favorite school". Mainichi Shimbun, February 11, 2009. Retrieved on February 26, 2009.
- 9.Japanese Communist Party Official Channel – YouTube. April 19, 2012.
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