Miura, Shion: - Shion Miura made her fiction debut in 2000 with Kakuto suru mono ni maru ( A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight ).
Miura has also published more than fifteen collections of essays and is a manga aficionado..
Her other works in English, all translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, include The Easy Life in Kamusari ( Kamusari naanaa nichijo ), volume one in her Forest series, and The Great Passage ( Fune o amu ), which was made into an award-winning motion picture and received both the Booksellers\' Award in Japan in 2012 and an Earphones Award.
Her other novels include Kaze ga tsuyoku fuiteiru ( The Wind Blows Hard ), Kogure-so monogatari ( The Kogure Apartments ), and Ano ie ni kurasu yonin no onna ( The Four Women Living in That House ).
In 2006, she won the Naoki Prize for her story collection Mahoro ekimae Tada Benriken ( The Handymen in Mahoro Town ).
Miura, Shion: - Shion Miura made her fiction debut in 2000 with Kakuto suru mono ni maru ( A Passing Grade for Those Who Fight )
