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{{Short description|Japanese writer}}
{{Infobox writer
|name = Kaori Fujino
|native_name = 藤野可織
|image =
|caption =
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1980}}
|birth_place = [[Kyoto]], Japan
|occupation = Writer
|education = [[Doshisha University]]
|notable_works = {{plainlist |
*''Tsume to me''
*''Iyashii tori''}}
|awards = {{plainlist |
* [[Akutagawa Prize]]
* Bungakukai Prize}}
}}

{{nihongo|'''Kaori Fujino'''|藤野可織|Fujino Kaori}} is a [[List of Japanese women writers|Japanese writer]] from [[Kyoto]]. Her work has won the 103rd Bungakukai Prize and the 149th [[Akutagawa Prize]].

==Early life and education ==
Fujino was born in [[Kyoto]] in 1980 and lived there through her school years, eventually completing a master's degree at Kyoto's [[Doshisha University]] with a thesis on the photographer [[Ihei Kimura]].<ref name=jt1>{{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/17/national/fujino-wins-akutagawa-award-sakuragi-gets-naoki-prize/|title=Fujino wins Akutagawa award; Sakuragi gets Naoki prize|work=[[The Japan Times]]|date=July 17, 2013|access-date=July 11, 2018}}</ref><ref name=bfj>{{cite web|url=http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/2155-kaori-fujino|title=Authors: Kaori Fujino|work=Books From Japan|access-date=July 11, 2018|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712004327/http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/2155-kaori-fujino|url-status=dead}}</ref> Though she had originally planned to become a museum curator, after graduating Fujino worked a part-time job at a publishing company to support her writing.<ref name=gq>{{cite web|url=https://gqjapan.jp/life/business/20130909/kaori-fujino|language=japanese|title=作品は純文学ながらホラーテイスト──美しい"魔"を放つ芥川賞作家|work=GQ Japan|last=瀧井|first=朝世|date=September 9, 2013|access-date=July 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFG1709G_X10C13A7000000/|language=japanese|title=芥川賞に藤野可織さんの「爪と目」|work=Nihon Keizai Shimbun|date=July 17, 2013|access-date=July 11, 2018}}</ref>

== Career ==
In 2006 Fujino made her literary debut with the story ''Iyashii tori'', which won the 103rd Bungakukai Prize and was later published in a book of the same title.<ref name=bungakukai /> Her short novel ''Tsume to me'' (''Nails and Eyes''), about a young girl observing the behavior of her father's lover, was published in 2013.<ref name=jt1 /> ''Tsume to me'' won the 149th [[Akutagawa Prize]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.tv-asahi.co.jp/news_society/articles/000008901.html|language=japanese|title=第149回芥川賞に藤野可織さんの「爪と目」が受賞|work=[[TV Asahi]] News|publisher=[[TV Asahi]]|date=July 17, 2013|access-date=July 11, 2018}}</ref> Since winning the [[Akutagawa Prize]] Fujino has primarily published short stories, many of which have been collected in the 2014 book ''Fainaru Gāru'' (''Final Girl'') and the 2017 book ''Doresu'' (''Dress'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bunshun.jp/articles/-/5359|language=japanese|title=可愛らしくてグロテスクな新刊『ドレス』に翻弄されろ|work=Bunshun Online|last=瀧井|first=朝世|date=December 16, 2017|access-date=July 11, 2018}}</ref>

In 2017 the [[Japan Foundation]] sponsored Fujino's residency in the [[International Writing Program]] at the [[University of Iowa]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/fujino-kaori-%E8%97%A4%E9%87%8E%E5%8F%AF%E7%B9%94|title=Fujino Kaori 藤野可織 2017 Resident|publisher=[[International Writing Program]]|access-date=July 11, 2018}}</ref>

==Recognition==
* 2006 103rd Bungakukai Prize<ref name=bungakukai>{{cite web|url=https://www.bunshun.co.jp/mag/bungakukai/bungakukai0612.htm|language=japanese|title=第103回文學界新人賞発表|work=Bungakukai|publisher=Bunshun|date=November 7, 2006|access-date=July 11, 2018}}</ref>
* 2013 149th [[Akutagawa Prize]] (2013上)<ref name=akutagawa>{{cite web|url=http://www.bunshun.co.jp/shinkoukai/award/akutagawa/list.html|language=japanese|title=芥川賞受賞者一覧|work=日本文学振興会|access-date=July 11, 2018}}</ref>

==Works==

===Books in Japanese===
* ''Iyashii tori'', Bungei Shunjū, 2008, {{isbn|9784163274409}}
* ''Patorone'', [[Shueisha]], 2012, {{isbn|9784087714449}}
* ''Ohanashishitekochan'', [[Kodansha]], 2013, {{isbn|9784062186308}}
* ''Tsume to me'' (''Nails and Eyes''), [[Shinchosha]], 2013, {{isbn|9784103345114}}
* ''Fainaru gāru'' (''Final Girl''), Fusōsha, 2014, {{isbn|9784594070281}}
* ''Doresu'' (''Dress''), Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2017, {{isbn|9784309026244}}

===Selected work in English===
* "You Okay For Time?", trans. [[Ginny Tapley Takemori]], ''Granta'', 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=https://granta.com/you-okay-for-time/|title=You Okay For Time?|work=Granta|last=Fujino|first=Kaori|translator-last=Tapley Takemori|translator-first=Ginny|date=July 10, 2017|access-date=July 11, 2018}}</ref>
* "Nails and Eyes", trans. Kendall Heitzman, Pushkin Press, 2023, {{isbn|978-1-78227-954-9}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Akutagawa Prize winners}}
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[[Category:Akutagawa Prize winners]]
[[Category:21st-century Japanese novelists]]
[[Category:21st-century Japanese male novelists]]
[[Category:21st-century Japanese women writers]]
[[Category:1980 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Writers from Kyoto]]
[[Category:International Writing Program alumni]]

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