Mizuki Tsujimura
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Mizuki Tsujimura (辻村深月, Tsujimura Mizuki, born February 29, 1980)[1] is a Japanese writer from Fuefuki, Yamanashi.[2]
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Native name | 辻村深月 |
Born | (1980-02-29) February 29, 1980 (age 44) Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan |
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | Japanese |
Alma mater | Chiba University |
Genre | Fiction, mystery fiction children's literature |
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Tsujimura specializes in mystery novels. She writes both for adults and children.[3]
She has been writing mystery novels from since she was a high school student, and she decided to go to Chiba University because there was a mystery research group in this university. She made her debut with her novel A school Frozen in time in 2004.[4]
Tsujimura is the winner of the 2018 Japan Booksellers' Award for her novel Lonely Castle in the Mirror.[5] After being shortlisted several times for the Naoki Prize, she finally received the 2012 Naoki Prize for Kagi no nai Yume wo Miru (I Saw a Dream Without a Key)[1][6]
She professes herself to be a fan of Doraemon[4] and wrote the screenplay for the Doraemon movie "Nobita no Getsumen Tansaki (Nobita's Lunar Exploration)"[7] and its novel[8] version in 2018.