Shion Miura

Shion Miura is a Japanese writer, born in 1976, known for literary fiction and coming-of-age stories such as Easy Life in Kamusari, the first book in the Kamusari series, and The Great Passage. She has won the Naoki Prize, the Oda Sakunosuke Prize, and the Japan Booksellers' Award, and her work has been adapted for film and television. Miura writes under her own name, and her books have reached readers in many languages.