Nahoko Uehashi
Birth place: Tokyo, Japan
Nahoko Uehashi is best known for her juvenile fantasy novels, which have earned her a bunch of major literary awards. But she's got another side—she's a professor of ethnology at Kawamura Gakuen Women's University, where she teaches after completing a Ph.D. that focused on the Yamatji, an indigenous Australian people.
Her dual career in writing and academia is pretty unusual, and it actually informs her work. The cultural research background shows up in how she builds the worlds in her books, giving them a real depth that readers have noticed over the years.
Kawamura Gakuen Women's University profile: jidou_uehashi.html
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