Sachiko Kashiwaba
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Sachiko
Kashiwaba |
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June 9, 1956
Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan |
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Writer |
| Nationality: |
Japanese |
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Biography
Sachiko Kashiwaba is a prolific writer of children's and young adult fantasy whose career spans more than four decades. Her works have garnered the prestigious Sankei, Shogakukan, and Noma children's literature awards, and her novel The Village Beyond the Mist inspired Hayao Miyazaki's film Spirited Away. Her works have recently been animated as the films The Wonderland and The House of the Lost on the Cape, and her novel Temple Alley Summer, illustrated by Miho Satake and translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa, won the American Library Association's 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award. She lives in Morioka, Iwate.
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