Born: January 6, 1979
Education: Kyoto University (Agriculture)
Tomihiko Morimi is a Japanese novelist based in Kyoto, where he sets most of his work. He's best known for magical realism fiction that contrasts deliberately mundane college-student protagonists with surprisingly sophisticated, colorful prose—a combination that's made him hugely popular with younger readers.
His breakthrough came in 2003 when he won the 15th Japan Fantasy Novel Award for Taiyou no Tou. Three years later, Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei earned him a Seiun Prize nomination and later got adapted into a TV anime in 2010.
He married on January 6, 2009.
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