Natsuo Kirino
- Writer
Natsuo Kirino, born 1951, quickly established a reputation in Japan as
one of a rare breed of crime writer whose work goes well beyond the
conventional crime novel. This fact has been demonstrated by her
winning not only Japan's top mystery award, for Out, but one of its
major literary awards, the Naoki Prize for Soft Cheeks. Several of her
books have also been turned into movies. Out is the first of her novels
to appear in English.
