Fuyumi Ono
Japanese novelist (born 1960)
Fuyumi Ono (小野 不由美, Ono Fuyumi; born December 24, 1960) is a Japanese novelist best known for writing The Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記, Jūni Kokuki), which was adapted into a popular anime series. She is married to Yukito Ayatsuji, the author of the horror novel Another.
Biography
Ono is married to Naoyuki Uchida (内田 直行, Uchida Naoyuki), a mystery novelist who writes under the pseudonym Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻 行人, Ayatsuji Yukito).
Her name after marriage to Ayatsuji Yukito is Uchida Fuyumi, but she writes under her maiden name, which is Ono Fuyumi.
Before she started work on The Twelve Kingdoms, Fuyumi Ono wrote The Demonic Child (魔性の子, Mashō no Ko), a horror novel about a boy from another world. She later worked certain events from this novel into the Twelve Kingdoms series. Short stories set in the various kingdoms include: Kasho (華胥), Toei (冬栄), Shokan (書簡), Kizan (帰山) and Jogetsu (乗月). In February, 2008, a new Twelve Kingdoms short story, "Hisho no Tori" (丕緒の鳥) was published in Shinchosha's Yomyom magazine.
On March 18, 2007, according to an interview at the Anime News Network, she is "currently rewriting a girls' horror series (she) wrote long ago".
Major works
Akuryo Series (1989–92, 8 light novel volumes, Kodansha)
Ghost Hunt (also known as Nightmare Dwelling) (1994, 2 light novel volumes, Kodansha) – continuation of Akuryo Series but in a different setting
The Twelve Kingdoms (1992-present, 9 novels and 2 short story collections, Kodansha, later Shinchosha)
Shiki (1998, novel in 2 volumes)
Works
Evil Spirit Series
Evil Spirit series (悪霊シリーズ – Akuryō series), Kodansha.
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