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:Kazuki Sakuraba

{{short description|Japanese writer}}

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| birth_place = Shimane Prefecture, Japan

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| genre = Fiction, light novel, crime fiction

| notableworks = Gosick series, Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas

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| awards = Mystery Writers of Japan Award (2007)
Naoki Prize (2007)

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{{nihongo|Kazuki Sakuraba|桜庭 一樹|Sakuraba Kazuki}} is a Japanese author of novels and light novels, and Naoki Prize winner.{{Cite web|date=2015-07-05|title=桜庭一樹オフィシャルサイト Scheherzade - Profile|url=http://sakuraba.if.tv/profile/index.php|access-date=2021-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705164805/http://sakuraba.if.tv/profile/index.php|archive-date=2015-07-05}}

Biography

Sakuraba was born in Shimane Prefecture on the 26th of July 1971. She, however, grew up in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture.{{Cite web|date=2013-12-02|title=■2007年06月15日「米子市出身作家の桜庭一樹さん～日本推理作家協会賞受賞～」/とっとり雑学本舗|url=http://www.pref.tottori.jp/kouhou/mlmg/topics/619_3.htm|access-date=2021-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224532/http://www.pref.tottori.jp/kouhou/mlmg/topics/619_3.htm|archive-date=2013-12-02}}

She started writing novels when she was in the fourth or fifth grade of elementary school. In the library, Sakuraba often met a girl who she befriended that was writing something like a novel, so she decided to do the same, writing her first novel in her notebook.{{Cite web|date=2016-03-05|title=雨のち晴れ#015 特集：桜庭一樹|url=http://www.lib.city.kurayoshi.lg.jp/news/young/backno/ya015/index.htm|access-date=2021-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305080246/http://www.lib.city.kurayoshi.lg.jp/news/young/backno/ya015/index.htm|archive-date=2016-03-05}}{{Cite news|date=21 February 2008|title=Sawako Agawa no kono hito ni aitai|pages=122–124|work=Shūkan Bunshun}}

During her junior and senior high school years, Sakuraba skipped classes and cram school to read books. She states that she was seemingly unable to and hated studying. She graduated from Yonago Higashi High School and moved to Tokyo for university.{{Cite web|last=日本人名大辞典+Plus,デジタル大辞泉|first=デジタル版|title=桜庭一樹とは|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%A1%9C%E5%BA%AD%E4%B8%80%E6%A8%B9-509850|access-date=2021-06-02|website=コトバンク|language=ja}} During university, she repeatedly tried but failed to write anything substantial. Sakuraba continued to read books however and had a part-time job.

In 1993, she won the DENiM New Writer's Award. In 1999, Sakuraba's novel Yozora ni, Manten no Hoshi (later retitled Loneliness Guardian: AD2015 Isolated Town) received an honorable mention in the 1st Famitsu Entertainment Award in the novel category. Novelist Usagi Nakamura was on the selection committee and recommended the work, barely making the selection and allowing Sakuraba to debut.{{Cite web|date=2019-12-04|title=文藝春秋｜松本清張賞｜石田衣良×桜庭一樹対談|url=http://www.bunshun.co.jp/award/matsumoto/talk.htm|access-date=2021-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204225335/http://www.bunshun.co.jp/award/matsumoto/talk.htm|archive-date=2019-12-04}} After her debut, there was a period of stagnation where Sakuraba did not publish much and the work she did publish did not sell well.

In 2003, Sakuraba made her first big break with the light novel series Gosick. In addition, her novels Suitei Shōjo and A Lollypop or A Bullet published in 2004 were highly acclaimed,{{Cite book|url=http://www.tsogen.co.jp/np/isbn/9784488472016|title=少女には向かない職業 - 桜庭一樹｜東京創元社|language=ja}} and in 2005, her novel Shōjo ni wa Mukanai Shokugyō attracted attention as her first work for the general public.

In 2007, she won the 60th Mystery Writers of Japan Award in the long and serial short story category for her work Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas published in 2006.{{Cite web|title=2007年 第60回 日本推理作家協会賞｜日本推理作家協会|url=http://www.mystery.or.jp/prize/detail/10602|access-date=2021-06-02|website=日本推理作家協会|language=ja}} The same work was nominated for the 28th Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Newcomer Award. In 2008, she won the 138th Naoki Prize for her novel Watashi no Otoko.

Works in English translation

Gosick series

  • Gosick, Volume 1 (Tokyopop. 2008. {{ISBN|9781427805690}})
  • Gosick, Volume 2: The Crime That Has No Name (Tokyopop. 2010. {{ISBN|9781427805706}})

Other

  • Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas (original title: Akakuchiba-ke no Densetsu), translated Jocelyne Allen (Haikasoru, 2015)

Awards and nominations

;Japanese Awards

  • 2007 – Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel: Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas
  • 2007 – Nominee for Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers: Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas
  • 2007 – Nominee for Naoki Prize: Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas
  • 2007 – Naoki Prize: Watashi no Otoko (My Man)

;U.S. Awards

Bibliography

= Gosick series =

{{main article|Gosick}}

Books in the GOSICK series up to GOSICKs III were published originally by Fujimi Mystery Bunko; the publishing dates listed correspond to this printing. Between September 2009 and January 2011, these books were republished by Kadokawa Bunko. From February to November 2011 they were then republished by Kadokawa Beans Bunko. Starting with GOSICK VII the books have been published by Kadokawa Bunko exclusively.

Royalties from the first edition printing of GOSICK VII were donated to the Japanese Red Cross to aid victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

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! Year

! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Publisher

! ISBN

2003

| {{nihongo2|GOSICK -ゴシック-}}
Goshikku

| GOSICK -Gosick-

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko
Kadokawa Bunko
Kadokawa Beans Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-8291-6229-5}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428106-9}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428116-8}}

2004

| {{nihongo2|GOSICK II　-ゴシック・その罪は名もなき-}}
Goshikku: Sono Tsumi wa Namonaki

| GOSICK II -Gosick: Those Sins are Nameless-

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko
Kadokawa Bunko
Kadokawa Beans Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-8291-6254-6}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428107-6}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428117-5}}

2004

| {{nihongo2|GOSICK III　-ゴシック・青い薔薇の下で-}}
Goshikku: Aoi Bara no Shita de

| GOSICK III -Gosick: Beneath the Blue Rose-

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko
Kadokawa Bunko
Kadokawa Beans Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-8291-6273-2}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428108-3}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428118-2}}

2005

| {{nihongo2|GOSICK IV　-ゴシック・愚者を代弁せよ-}}
Goshikku: Kuja o Daiben Seyo

| GOSICK IV -Gosick: Speaking on Behalf of Fools-

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko
Kadokawa Bunko
Kadokawa Beans Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-8291-6288-0}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428110-6}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428122-9}}

2005

| {{nihongo2|GOSICKs -ゴシックエス・春来たる死神-}}
Goshikkuesu: Haru Kitaru Shinigami

| GOSICKs -Gosicks: The Death God that Came with Spring-

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko
Kadokawa Bunko
Kadokawa Beans Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-8291-6310-0}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428109-0}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428120-5}}

2005

| {{nihongo2|GOSICK V　-ゴシック・ベルゼブブの頭蓋-}}
Goshikku: Beruzebubu no Zugai

| GOSICK V -Gosick: Belzebub's Skull-

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko
Kadokawa Bunko
Kadokawa Beans Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-8291-6328-3}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428111-3}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428125-0}}

2006

| {{nihongo2|GOSICKs II　-ゴシックエス・夏から遠ざかる列車-}}
Goshikkuesu: Natsu kara Toozakaru Ressha

| GOSICKs II -Gosicks: The Train Moving Away From Summer-

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko
Kadokawa Bunko
Kadokawa Beans Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-8291-6352-6}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428112-0}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428123-6}}

2006

| {{nihongo2|GOSICK VI　-ゴシック・仮面舞踏会の夜-}}
Goshikku: Kamen Butōkai no Yoru

| GOSICK VI -Gosick: The Night of the Masquerade Ball-

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko
Kadokawa Bunko
Kadokawa Beans Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-8291-6375-5}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428113-7}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428126-7}}

2007

| {{nihongo2|GOSICKs III　-ゴシックエス・秋の花の思い出-}}
Goshikuesu: Aki no Hana no Omoide

| GOSICKs III -Gosicks: Memories of Autumn Flowers-

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko
Kadokawa Bunko
Kadokawa Beans Bunko

| {{ISBN|978-4-8291-6387-0}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428114-4}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-100048-9}}

2011

| {{nihongo2|GOSICK VII -ゴシック・薔薇色の人生-}}
Goshikku: Barairo no Jinsei

| GOSICK VII -Gosick: Rose Coloured Life-

| Kadokawa Bunko

| {{ISBN|978-4-04-428115-1}}

2011

| {{nihongo2|GOSICKs IV -ゴシックエス・冬のサクリファイス-}}
Goshikkuesu: Fuyu no Sakurifaisu

| GOSICKs IV -Gosicks: Winter's Sacrifice-

| Kadokawa Bunko

| {{ISBN|978-4-04-428119-9}}

2011

| {{nihongo2|GOSICK VIII -ゴシック・神々の黄昏-}}
Goshikku: Kamigami no Tasogare

| GOSICK VIII -Gosick: Twilight of the Gods-

| Kadokawa Bunko

| First volume: {{ISBN|978-4-04-428121-2}}
Second volume: {{ISBN|978-4-04-428124-3}}

= Other light novels =

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! Year

! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Publisher

! ISBN

1999

| {{nihongo2|ロンリネス・ガーティアン AD2015隔離都市}}
Ronrinesu Gādian AD2015 Kakuri Toshi

| Loneliness Guardian: AD2015 Isolated Town

| Famitsū Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-7572-0619-4}}

2001

| {{nihongo2|ルナティック・ドリーマー}}
Runatikku Dorīmā

| Lunatic Dreamer

| EX Novels

| {{ISBN|4-7575-0601-5}}

2002

| {{nihongo2|Girl's Guard 君の歌は僕の歌}}
Girl's Guard: Kimi no Uta wa Boku no Uta

| Girl's Guard: Your Song Is My Song

| Famitsū Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-7577-0710-X}}

2002

| {{nihongo2|B-EDGE AGE 獅子たちはアリスの庭で}}
B-EDGE AGE: Shishi-tachi wa Arisu no Niwa de

| B-EDGE AGE: The Shishi Are in Alice's Garden

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-8291-6167-1}}

2002

| {{nihongo2|B-EDGE AGE 獅子たちはノアの方舟で}}
B-EDGE AGE: Shishi-tachi wa Noa no Hakobune de

| B-EDGE AGE: The Shishi Are in Noah's Ark

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-8291-6186-8}}

2002

| {{nihongo2|竹田くんの恋人}}
Takeda-kun no Koibito

| Takeda-kun's Lover

| Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-04-428101-7}}

2003

| {{nihongo2|赤×ピンク}}
Aka × Pinku

| Red × Pink

| Famitsū Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-7577-1283-9}}

2004

| {{nihongo2|推定少女}}
Suitei Shōjo

| Presumptuous Girl

| Famitsū Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-7577-1995-7}}

2004

| {{nihongo2|砂糖菓子の弾丸は撃ちぬけない}}
Satōgashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai

| A Lollypop or A Bullet
(lit. Candy Bullets Can't Hit Anything)

| Fujimi Mystery Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-8291-6276-7}}

2005

| {{nihongo2|荒野の恋 第一部 catch the tail}}
Kōya no Koi Dai Ichi Bu catch the tail

| Love of the Wilderness, Volume One: catch the tail

| Famitsū Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-7577-2289-3}}

2006

| {{nihongo2|荒野の恋 第二部 bump of love}}
Kōya no Koi Dai Ni Bu bump of love

| Love of the Wilderness, Volume Two: bump of love

| Famitsū Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-7577-2604-X}}

= Mainstream novels =

Sakuraba's mainstream novels have been released by a variety of publishers. The bulk of them have also been rereleased several years after their original publishing dates by different publishers.

Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas was the winner of the 60th Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 2007, and Watashi no Otoko (My Man) won the 138th Naoki Prize in the latter half of the same year.

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! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Publisher

! ISBN

2005

| {{nihongo2|少女には向かない職業}}
Shōjo ni wa Mukanai Shokugyō

| Careers Not Suitable for Girls

| Tōkyō Sōgensha Mystery Frontier
Sōgensuiri Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-488-01719-3}}
{{ISBN|978-4-488-47201-6}}

2005

| {{nihongo2|ブルースカイ}}
Burū Sukai

| Blue Sky

| Hayakawa Bunko JA

Bunshun Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-15-030820-9}}
{{ISBN|978-4-15-031028-8}}
{{ISBN|978-4-16-778405-8}}

2006

| {{nihongo2|少女七竈と七人の可愛そうな大人}}
Shōjo Nanakamodo to Shichinin no Kawaisō na Otona

| Girl Rowans and Seven People Make Cute Adults

| Kadokawa Shoten
Kadokawa Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-04-873700-7}}
{{ISBN|978-4-04-428105-2}}

2006

| {{nihongo2|赤朽葉家の伝説}}
Akakuchiba-ke no Densetsu

| Red Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas

| Tōkyō Sōgensha
Sōgensuiri Bunko

| {{ISBN|4-488-02393-2}}
{{ISBN|978-4-488-47202-3}}

2007

| {{nihongo2|青年のための読書クラブ}}
Seishun no Tame no Dokusha Kurabu

| Reading Club for the Sake of Youth

| Shinchosha
Shinchō Bunko

| {{ISBN|978-4-10-304951-7}}
{{ISBN|978-4-10-135681-5}}

2007

| {{nihongo2|私の男}}
Watashi no Otoko

| My Man

| Bungeishunjū
Bunshun Bunko

| {{ISBN|978-4-16-326430-1}}
{{ISBN|978-4-16-778401-0}}

2008

| {{nihongo2|ファミリーポートレイト}}
Famirī Pōtoreito

| Family Portrait

| Kodansha

| {{ISBN|978-4-06-215132-0}}
{{ISBN|978-4-06-277062-0}}

2009

| {{nihongo2|製鉄天使}}
Seitetsu Tenshi

| Blacksmith Angel

| Tōkyō Sōgensha

| {{ISBN|978-4-488-02450-5}}

2010

| {{nihongo2|道徳という名の少年}}
Dōtoku to Iu Na no Shōnen

| A Boy Named Moral

| Kadokawa Shoten

| {{ISBN|978-4-04-874058-6}}

2010

| {{nihongo2|伏 贋作・里見八犬伝}}
Fuse Gansaku: Satomi Hakkenden

| The Fake Fuse: Satomi Hakkenden

| Bungeishunjū

| {{ISBN|978-4-16-329760-6}}

2011

| {{nihongo2|ばらばら死体の夜}}
Barabara Shitai no Yoru

| Night of the Scattered Corpse

| Shueisha

| {{ISBN|978-4-08-771402-9}}

2012

| {{nihongo2|傷痕}}
Kizuato

| Scar

| Kodansha

| {{ISBN|978-4-06-217459-6}}

= Anthologized works =

In addition to her full-length works, Sakuraba has contributed short stories to a number of literary anthologies.

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! Year

! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Anthologized In

! ISBN

2005

| {{nihongo2|暴君}}
Bōkun

| Tyrant

| Igyō Korekushon: Obakeyashiki
{{nihongo2|異形コレクション・オバケヤシキ}}
Grotesque Collection: Haunted House

| {{ISBN|978-4334739317}}

2006

| {{nihongo2|脂肪遊戯}}
Shibō Yūgi

| Blubber Games

| Igyō Korekushon: Yami Denwa
{{nihongo2|『異形コレクション・闇電話}}
Grotesque Collection: Dark Phone

| {{ISBN|978-4334740665}}

2006

| {{nihongo2|少年バンコラン！ 夜歩く犬}}
Shōnen Bankoran! Yoru Aruku Inu

| Boy Bencolin! Night Walking Dog

| Misshitsu to Kiseki: J.D. Kā Seitan Hyakunen Kinen Ansorojī
{{nihongo2|密室と奇蹟 J・D・カー生誕百周年記念アンソロジ}}ー
Locked Rooms and Miracles: J.D. Carr Hundred Year Anniversary Anthology

| {{ISBN|978-4488023928}}

2008

| {{nihongo2|ライティング}}
Raitingu

| Lighting

| Sakuraba Kazuki: Monogataru Shōjo to Yajū
{{nihongo2|桜庭一樹 物語る少女と野獣}}
Kazuki Sakuraba: To Tell of Girls and Beasts

| {{ISBN|978-4048738750}}

2009

| {{nihongo2|A}}
A

| A

| Mijikai Nemurinitsuku Mae ni III
{{nihongo2|みじかい眠りにつく前にIII}}
A While Before You Sleep III

| {{ISBN|978-4861766824}}

= Essay collections =

Aside from her works of fiction, Sakuraba has written a number of essays that have been compiled into collection. Her first essay collection, Nidaime no Baka ni Tsukeru Kusuri, was published under the masculine pen name {{nihongo|Sakuramaru Yamada|山田桜丸|Yamada Sakuramaru}}.

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! Year

! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Publisher

! ISBN

1996

| {{nihongo2|二代目のバカにつける薬}}
Nidaime no Baka ni Tsukeru Kusuri

| Remedies for a Second Generation Fool

| Ihatov Shuppan

| {{ISBN|4-900779-08-3}}

2006

| {{nihongo2|桜庭一樹日記 BLACK AND WHITE}}
Sakuraba Kazuki Nikki: BLACK AND WHITE

| Kazuki Sakuraba Diary: BLACK AND WHITE

| Fujimi Shobo

| {{ISBN|4-8291-7610-5}}

2007

| {{nihongo2|桜庭一樹読書日記 少年になり、本を買うのだ。}}
Sakuraba Kazuki Dokusha Nikki: Shōnen ni Nari, Hon o Kau no da.

| Kazuki Sakuraba Reading Diary: If I Was a Boy, I Would Buy Books.

| Tōkyō Sōgensha
Sōgen Library

| {{ISBN|978-4-488-02395-9}}
{{ISBN|978-4-488-07064-9}}

2008

| {{nihongo2|書店はタイムマシーン 桜庭一樹読書日記}}
Shoten wa Taimu Mashīn: Sakuraba Kazuki Dokusha Nikki

| Bookstores are Time Machines: Kazuki Sakuraba Reading Diary

| Tōkyō Sōgensha

| {{ISBN|978-4-488-02435-2}}

2009

| {{nihongo2|お好みの本、入荷しました 桜庭一樹読書日記}}
Okonomi no Hon, Nyūkashimashita: Sakuraba Kazuki Dokusha Nikki

| My Favourite Books Have Arrived: Kazuki Sakuraba Reading Diary

| Tōkyō Sōgensha

| {{ISBN|978-4-488-02452-9}}

TV and film adaptations

; TV anime

; Anime films

; Live action films

External links

  • [http://sakuraba.if.tv/ Kazuki Sakuraba Official Site (in Japanese)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070510014443/http://sakuraba.if.tv/ |date=2007-05-10 }}
  • [http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/652-kazuki-sakuraba J'Lit | Authors : Kazuki Sakuraba | Books from Japan]{{Dead link|date=April 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{in lang|en}}

References

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