Shion Miura

Shion Miura made her fiction debut in 2000 with Kakuto suru mono ni maru ( A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight ). In 2006, she won the Naoki Prize for her story collection Mahoro ekimae Tada Benriken ( The Handymen in Mahoro Town ). Her other works in English include The Easy Life in Kamusari, Kamusari Tales Told at Night, and The Great Passage ( Fune o amu ), which received both the Booksellers' Award in Japan and an Earphones Award and was made into an award-winning motion picture. Miura has...See more

Shion Miura made her fiction debut in 2000 with Kakuto suru mono ni maru ( A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight ). In 2006, she won the Naoki Prize for her story collection Mahoro ekimae Tada Benriken ( The Handymen in Mahoro Town ). Her other works in English include The Easy Life in Kamusari, Kamusari Tales Told at Night, and The Great Passage ( Fune o amu ), which received both the Booksellers' Award in Japan and an Earphones Award and was made into an award-winning motion picture. Miura has also published more than fifteen collections of essays and is a manga aficionado. She lives in Tokyo. See less