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Atsuko Asano (writer)

For the actress, see Atsuko Asano.

Atsuko Asano (Japanese: あさの あつこ, Hepburn: Asano Atsuko, born 1954 in Okayama Prefecture[1][2]) is a Japanese writer. She wrote the children's novel series Telepathy Shōjo Ran and the manga series The Manzai Comics.[3] She started writing children's novels when she was in college. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with the Bachelor of Letters degree.[4] After that, she worked as a temporary teacher of the elementary school in Okayama for two years.[5] She published Hotarukan monogatari as her first novel in 1991.[1][6] She is married to a dentist and they have two sons and a daughter.

Atsuko Asano
Born (1954-09-14) September 14, 1954 (age 69)
Mimasaka-cho, Aida District (now Mimasaka city),
Okayama Prefecture, Japan
OccupationAuthor, novelist
NationalityJapanese
Alma materAoyama Gakuin University
Period1991–present
GenreChildren's literature, period novel

Asano received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 for the book series Battery,[1] which has been adapted into a film.[7] The same series won the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005.[1] Her work frequently appears in literary magazines and she has also been featured in the Mainichi Shimbun.[8]

She is a supporter of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP).[9]

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  1. ^ a b c d "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 Archived December 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. 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 Archived February 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on October 15, 2009.
  7. ^ "バッテリー Archived July 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine." 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. ^ "だから私は日本共産党/作家/あさのあつこさん – YouTube" (in Japanese). Japanese Communist Party Official Channel – YouTube. April 19, 2012. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved April 12, 2016.

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