Eto Mori

Eto Mori, born in Tokyo in 1968, is a Japanese novelist working chiefly in children's and young adult literature. She graduated from the Japan Juvenile Education College and Waseda University and debuted in 1990 with Rizumu, which won the Kodansha Award of Children's Literature for Newcomers. Her later works include Uchu no minashigo, which took the Noma Literary Prize New Author Award, Tsuki no fune, which won the Noma Literary Prize, and Kazeni maiagaru biniru shito, awarded the Naoki Prize in 2006. Her 1998 novel Karafuru won the Sankei Children's Book Award and has been adapted into three films, while her four-volume Daibu!! series, winner of the Shogakukan Award for Children's Literature, has become a manga, a feature film, and a television anime.