Natsuo Kirino

Birthday:

10/07/1951

Place of birth:

Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan:

Biography:

Natsuo Kirino (桐野 夏生, Kirino Natsuo) (born October 7, 1951, in Japan) is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.