- Kaoru Kurimoto
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name = Kaoru Kurimoto
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1953|2|13|df=y
birthplace =Tokyo ,Japan
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occupation =novel ist andcritic
nationality = Japanese
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influenced =Kaoru Kurimoto (栗本薫, born
13 February 1953 ) is the pen name of Sumiyo Imaoka, an award-winningJapan ese novelist. Imaoka also uses thepen name Azusa Nakajima (中島梓 "Nakajima Azusa") to write criticism. She is best known for her record-breaking 118-volume "Guin Saga " series, which has been translated into English, German, French, Italian and Russian.Biography
Kurimoto was born in Tokyo in 1953. She studied literature at
Waseda University , graduating in 1975. Still in her early twenties, she won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers (Criticism), as Azusa Nakajima, in 1977, and theEdogawa Rampo prize in 1978. This spectacular introduction to the literary world drew a lot of attention, especially as she was the youngest ever winner of the Edogawa Rampo prize. Her use of two pen names was also discussed, and shortly after she won the Rampo prize the magazine "Heibon Panchi" featured a conversation between the 'two' writers.Kurimoto is known for being prolific, and since her debut about thirty years ago, she has written nearly 400 books. This includes four years where she wrote more than twenty books, and she still produces more than ten books a year now. She writes in several genres, including
science fiction ,fantasy , horror,mystery ,yaoi and Japanese-style historical romance.Her writing shows the influence of
Mori Mari , with a number of her works featuring homosexual love, and her 1979 novel "Mayonaka no Tenshi" played an important part in the creation of the yaoi genre. She was also heavily involved with the first issue of the yaoi magazine "June" in 1978, contributing stories and criticism as Kaoru Kurimoto and Azusa Nakajima, as well as using a number of other pseudonyms.References
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NAME=Kaoru Kurimoto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES="'栗本薫; Sumiyo Imaoka (real name); Nakajima Azusa (pen name
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH=13 February 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH=Tokyo ,Japan
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