![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn't until she was in her thirties that she began to seriously think about becoming a writer, and it wasn't until her forties that she became popular as a writer. She soon discovered it wasn't right for her and just before her thirtieth birthday she started taking scriptwriting classes. For example, not knowing what she wanted to do in life, Kirino began working at the Iwanami Hall movie theater in her early twenties. ![]() She earned a law degree in 1974 from Seikei University, and she dabbled in many fields of work before settling on being a writer. Winner of Japan's Grand Prix for Crime Fiction Edgar Award Finalist Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning literary mystery Out. Kirino married in 1975 and had a daughter in 1981. Kirino has lived in many different cities, including her current residence, Tokyo. Natsuo Kirino’s novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime. ![]() She has two brothers, one who is six years older and one who is five years younger. Natsuo Kirino (born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture) is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction. Out: A Thriller by Natsuo Kirino, Paperback Barnes & Noble Home Books Add to Wishlist Out: A Thriller by Natsuo Kirino 4.3 (30) Paperback (Reprint) 16.00 18. ![]()
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