Kazuki Sakuraba’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Japanese writer
Is Writer 
Novelist 
From Japan 
Type Literature 
Gender female
Birth 26 July 1971, Shimane Prefecture
Age: 49 years
Family
Spouse: Hidetoshi Tomono

Kazuki Sakuraba (桜庭 一樹, Sakuraba Kazuki) is a Japanese author of novels and light novels, and a Naoki Prize winner.
Born in 1971, she began her career writing novelizations, but the bestselling mystery series Gosick brought her work with several light novel publishers, and her novel A Lollypop or a Bullet placed third in the 2006 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! ranking. The novel proved so popular it was republished by Kadokawa as a mainstream novel. In recent years, she has published several novels through other mainstream publishers as well, making her one of the few light novelists to make that leap. In 2007, her novel Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas was nominated for the Naoki Prize. In 2008, she was nominated for a second time, for Watashi no Otoko (My Man), and won the prize.

Works in English translation

Gosick series

  • Gosick, Volume 1 (Tokyopop. 2008. ISBN 9781427805690)
  • Gosick, Volume 2: The Crime That Has No Name (Tokyopop. 2010. ISBN 9781427805706)

Other novel

  • Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas (original title: Akakuchiba-ke no Densetsu), trans. Jocelyne Allen (Haikasoru, 2015)

Awards and nominations

Japanese Awards
  • 2007 – Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel: Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas
  • 2007 – Nominee for Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers: Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas
  • 2007 – Nominee for Naoki Prize: Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas
  • 2007 – Naoki Prize: Watashi no Otoko (My Man)
U.S. Awards
  • 2016 – Longlisted for the 2015 James Tiptree, Jr. Award: Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas

TV and film adaptations

TV Anime
  • Gosick (2011)
Anime film
  • Fuse Teppō Musume no Torimonochō (2012)
Live action films
  • Girl’s Blood (2014)
  • My Man (2014)
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