Asako Yuzuki

Asako Yuzuki is a Japanese writer.

Yuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1981. While attending school, she read books by foreign authors. In elementary school, Yuzuki became seriously ill, and during her recovery she read Banana Yoshimoto’s novel Kitchen, which convinced her of the need to read more Japanese literature. After enrolling at Rikkyo University, she studied French literature. After writing her graduation thesis on Honoré de Balzac and graduating from Yuzuki College, she worked at a confectionery factory, but resigned to focus on writing.

In 2008, Yuzuki received the 88th All Yomimono Prize for New Writers for the story “Forget Me, Not Blue,” about bullying at a Protestant girls’ school in Tokyo. The story was first published in the literary magazine All Yomimono, and then, together with three other interconnected stories, was compiled in 2010 into the collection Shūten no ano ko, which became Yuzuki’s first published book. In 2011, her novel Nageki no bijo, about a woman disillusioned by the prevalence of attractive people on the internet and attempting to commit an act of vandalism at a beauty website, was published by Asahi Shimbun and was later adapted into a comedy television series starring Akiko Yada.