Kazuki Sakuraba

is a Japanese author of novels and light novels, and Naoki Prize winner.

Biography Sakuraba was born in Shimane Prefecture on the 26th of July 1971.

She started writing novels when she was in the fourth or fifth grade of elementary school. In the library, Sakuraba often met a girl who she befriended that was writing something like a novel, so she decided to do the same, writing her first novel in her notebook.

During her junior and senior high school years, Sakuraba skipped classes and cram school to read books. During university, she repeatedly tried but failed to write anything substantial. After her debut, there was a period of stagnation where Sakuraba did not publish much and the work she did publish did not sell well. and in 2005, her novel Shōjo ni wa Mukanai Shokugyō attracted attention as her first work for the general public. The same work was nominated for the 28th Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Newcomer Award. Tōkyō Sōgensha Mystery FrontierSōgensuiri Bunko 2005 Burū Sukai Blue Sky Hayakawa Bunko JABunshun Bunko 2006 Shōjo Nanakamodo to Shichinin no Kawaisō na Otona Girl Rowans and Seven People Make Cute Adults Kadokawa ShotenKadokawa Bunko 2006 Akakuchiba-ke no Densetsu Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas Tōkyō SōgenshaSōgensuiri Bunko 2007 Seishun no Tame no Dokusha Kurabu Reading Club for the Sake of Youth ShinchoshaShinchō Bunko 2007 Watashi no Otoko My Man BungeishunjūBunshun Bunko 2008 Famirī Pōtoreito Family Portrait Kodansha 2009 Seitetsu Tenshi Blacksmith Angel Tōkyō Sōgensha 2010 Dōtoku to Iu Na no Shōnen A Boy Named Moral Kadokawa Shoten 2010 Fuse Gansaku: Satomi Hakkenden The Fake Fuse: Satomi Hakkenden Bungeishunjū 2011 Barabara Shitai no Yoru Night of the Scattered Corpse Shueisha 2012 Kizuato Scar Kodansha

Anthologized works In addition to her full-length works, Sakuraba has contributed short stories to a number of literary anthologies.

Year Japanese Title English Title Anthologized In ISBN 2005 Bōkun Tyrant Igyō Korekushon: ObakeyashikiGrotesque Collection: Haunted House 2006 Shibō Yūgi Blubber Games Igyō Korekushon: Yami DenwaGrotesque Collection: Dark Phone 2006 Shōnen Bankoran! Yoru Aruku Inu Boy Bencolin! Night Walking Dog Misshitsu to Kiseki: J.D. Kā Seitan Hyakunen Kinen AnsorojīーLocked Rooms and Miracles: J.D. Carr Hundred Year Anniversary Anthology 2008 Raitingu Lighting Sakuraba Kazuki: Monogataru Shōjo to YajūKazuki Sakuraba: To Tell of Girls and Beasts 2009 A A Mijikai Nemurinitsuku Mae ni IIIA While Before You Sleep III

Essay collections Aside from her works of fiction, Sakuraba has written a number of essays that have been compiled into collection. Her first essay collection, Nidaime no Baka ni Tsukeru Kusuri, was published under the masculine pen name .

Year Japanese Title English Title Publisher ISBN 1996 Nidaime no Baka ni Tsukeru Kusuri Remedies for a Second Generation Fool Ihatov Shuppan 2006 Sakuraba Kazuki Nikki: BLACK AND WHITE Kazuki Sakuraba Diary: BLACK AND WHITE Fujimi Shobo 2007 Sakuraba Kazuki Dokusha Nikki: Shōnen ni Nari, Hon o Kau no da. Kazuki Sakuraba Reading Diary: If I Was a Boy, I Would Buy Books. Tōkyō SōgenshaSōgen Library 2008 Shoten wa Taimu Mashīn: Sakuraba Kazuki Dokusha Nikki Bookstores are Time Machines: Kazuki Sakuraba Reading Diary Tōkyō Sōgensha 2009 Okonomi no Hon, Nyūkashimashita: Sakuraba Kazuki Dokusha Nikki My Favourite Books Have Arrived: Kazuki Sakuraba Reading Diary Tōkyō Sōgensha

TV and film adaptations TV anime Gosick (2011)

Anime films Fuse Teppō Musume no Torimonochō (2012)

Live action films Girl's Blood (2014) My Man (2014)