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Asa Nonami (乃南アサ, Nonami Asa, born 19 August 1960) is a Japanese crime fiction and horror writer. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan.^[1]

Nonami attended Waseda University where she studied Sociology but dropped out to take a job at an advertising agency. She became a published author in 1988.^[2]

Works in English translation

Crime/thriller novels

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  The Hunter (original title: Kogoeru Kiba), trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter (Kodansha International, 2006)


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  Now You're One of Us (original title: Anki), trans. Michael Volek and Mitsuko Volek (Vertical, 2007)

Short horror story collection

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  Body (original title: Karada), trans. Takami Nieda (Vertical, 2012)

Awards

• 1988 – The Japanese Mystery and Suspense Award (Nihon Suiri Sasupensu Taisho): Kōfuku na Chōshoku (A Happy Breakfast)


• 1996 – Naoki Prize: The Hunter
  


• 2011 – Chuokoron Prize for Literature: Chi no Hate kara
  

Main works

Detective Takako Otomichi series

• Novels
  
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    Kogoeru Kiba (凍える牙), 1996
    
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      ISBN 9784770030252,
      OCLC 225652219
      
  
  
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    Kusari (鎖), 2000
  
  
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    Kaze no Epitafu (風の墓碑銘), 2006
  
  


• Short story collections
  
  • 
    Hana Chiru Koro no Satsujin (花散る頃の殺人), 1999
  
  
  • 
    Miren (未練), 2001
  
  
  • 
    Warau Yami (嗤う闇), 2004
  
  

Standalone novels

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  Kōfuku na Chōshoku (幸福な朝食), 1988


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  Anki (暗鬼), 1993
  
  • 
    Now You're One of Us, Vertical, 2007.
    ISBN 9781934287033,
    OCLC 144596946
    


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  Namida (涙), 2000


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  Chi no Hate kara (地のはてから), 2010

Short story collections

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  Karada (躯), 1999
  
  • 
    Body, Vertical, 2012.
    ISBN 9781934287378,
    OCLC 753305836
    


• 
  Kinryōku (禁猟区), 2010

Film adaptations

Japanese film

• 
  Heels of the Muse (2005) (Based on Nonami's short story Boku ga Juken ni Seikō Shita Wake (僕が受験に成功したわけ))

South Korean film

• 
  Howling (2012) (Based on Nonami's novel The Hunter)

See also

• Japanese detective fiction

Notes

References

• 
  Profile at J'Lit Books from Japan


• 
  Nonami's Profile and Reviews of Now You're One of Us at Vertical, Inc.

External links

• Twitter