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Mariko Ohara
| Full Name: | Mariko Ohara |
| Born: | March 20, 1959 Osaka, Japan |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
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Biography
Mariko Ohara is a Japanese science fiction writer. She won the 6th Hayakawa SF Contest in 1980, when she was still a student. Later she published various SF works and became the 10th president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan. Ohara won the Nihon SF Taisho Award in 1994.
Ohara was born in Osaka. She wrote Kirk/Spock fan fiction in her teens. She graduated in psychology from the University of the Sacred Heart (Japan).
Ohara won the 6th Hayakawa SF Contest for her short story A Cat who Walked along Alone in 1980. Next year, in 1981, she graduated from the University and started publishing her stories in the S-F Magazine.
In 1991, her Hybrid Child won the Seiun Award for Japanese novel. Then, in 1995 she won the 15th Nihon SF Taisho Award for Gods who Bandied War.
She was a science fiction reviewer for Asahi Shimbun from April 1998 to March 2002, and she was on the jury for the Nihon SF Taisho Awards from 1997 to 1999. She was also the 10th president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan from September 1999 to September 2001.
Ohara is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan, of the Japanese Writers' Association (JA), and, of the Nihon Pen Club (JA).
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