Akira Otani 王谷 晶 | |
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Born | 1981 Tokyo, Japan |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Japanese |
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Subject | Gender |
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Akira Otani (王谷 晶, Ōtani Akira, born 1981) is a Japanese fiction writer born in Tokyo. Known for a sharp, economical style, [1] her work often subverts genres like mystery and noir and focuses on characters that exist outside the gender archetypes of Japanese fiction, which she has described as "stiff and lacking reality." [2] Her novel Baba Yaga no yoru (The Night of Baba Yaga), a yakuza thriller concerned with sisterhood, has been compared to Thelma and Louise [3] and was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of Japan Award. Otani is lesbian. [4] In December 2021, Big Comic Spirits published a short manga entitled "Sakana ni natta Satsun no hanashi," for which Otani wrote the text and artist Ayumu Hida did the drawings. [5]
エッジの効いた文体で最注目の小説家
―フィクション上の女性像が、いくつかのパターンがあるだけの、固定的でリアリティがないものだと感じていて
Akira Otani 王谷 晶 | |
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Born | 1981 Tokyo, Japan |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Japanese |
Genre | |
Subject | Gender |
Notable works |
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Akira Otani (王谷 晶, Ōtani Akira, born 1981) is a Japanese fiction writer born in Tokyo. Known for a sharp, economical style, [1] her work often subverts genres like mystery and noir and focuses on characters that exist outside the gender archetypes of Japanese fiction, which she has described as "stiff and lacking reality." [2] Her novel Baba Yaga no yoru (The Night of Baba Yaga), a yakuza thriller concerned with sisterhood, has been compared to Thelma and Louise [3] and was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of Japan Award. Otani is lesbian. [4] In December 2021, Big Comic Spirits published a short manga entitled "Sakana ni natta Satsun no hanashi," for which Otani wrote the text and artist Ayumu Hida did the drawings. [5]
エッジの効いた文体で最注目の小説家
―フィクション上の女性像が、いくつかのパターンがあるだけの、固定的でリアリティがないものだと感じていて