Mayumi Nagano

Born in Tokyo in 1959, Mayumi Nagano is a writer and illustrator. In 1988, she won the Bungei Prize for Shōnen Arisu (Boy Alice), and in 2015, she received the 43rd Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature as well as the 68th Noma Literary Prize for Meido-ari (On the Path to the Land of the Dead).