Kaori Fujino

is a Japanese writer from Kyoto. Her work has won the 103rd Bungakukai Prize and the 149th Akutagawa Prize.

Early life and education Fujino was born in Kyoto in 1980 and lived there through her school years, eventually completing a master's degree at Kyoto's Doshisha University with a thesis on the photographer Ihei Kimura. Though she had originally planned to become a museum curator, after graduating Fujino worked a part-time job at a publishing company to support her writing.

Career In 2006 Fujino made her literary debut with the story Iyashii tori, which won the 103rd Bungakukai Prize and was later published in a book of the same title. Since winning the Akutagawa Prize Fujino has primarily published short stories, many of which have been collected in the 2014 book Fainaru Gāru (Final Girl) and the 2017 book Doresu (Dress).

In 2017 the Japan Foundation sponsored Fujino's residency in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Recognition 2006 103rd Bungakukai Prize 2013 149th Akutagawa Prize (2013上)

Works

Books in Japanese Iyashii tori, Bungei Shunjū, 2008, Patorone, Shueisha, 2012, Ohanashishitekochan, Kodansha, 2013, Tsume to me (Nails and Eyes), Shinchosha, 2013, Fainaru gāru (Final Girl), Fusōsha, 2014, Doresu (Dress), Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2017,

Selected work in English "You Okay For Time?", trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori, Granta, 2017 "Nails and Eyes", trans. Kendall Heitzman, Pushkin Press, 2023,