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Abe Chisato

阿部智里

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Biography

Chisato Abe was born in Japan in 1991.

In her primary school days, deeply impressed with “Harry Potter,” she determined to be a writer and started to write novels by herself.

At the age of 20, while studying at Waseda University in Tokyo, she won the Matsumoto-Seicho Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in literature for novels in Japan.

Her masterpiece, and also the first novels are Japanese Fantasy, “Yatagarasu series,” which have been a huge hit in Japan, with sales approaching 1.5 million copies.

They are translated into foreign languages and adapted into manga as well. She is now one of the most popular authors like J.K. Rowling in Japan.

From Bungei Shunjuu

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