About Mariko Koike
Born 1952. Mariko Koike is a Japanese novelist, crime fiction writer and writer.
is a Japanese novelist.
Biography Mariko Koike is a popular detective and horror novelist. Koike was born in Tokyo and graduated from Seikei University. Her first collection of essays was Recommendations to Women of the World and it became a bestseller. She has been a novelist since her novel came out in 1986. Several of her novels have been translated in to English by Deborah Boliver Boehm. She lived with her husband writer Yoshinaga Fujita until his death on 30 January 2020. They lived in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture.
Awards 1989 Japan Mystery Writers' Association Prize, for Tsuma no Onnatomodachi (My Wife's Female Friend) 1996 Naoki Prize, for Koi (Love) 1998 Shimase Romance Literary Prize
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Japanese novelist
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Mariko Koike was born on 28 October 1952 in Tokyo.
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Mariko Koike is a novelist, crime fiction writer and writer.
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