Atsuko Asano is a Japanese author of fantasy and horror genre novels. Her works have been translated into many languages.
Atsuko Asano was born in Hokkaido, Japan on February 14, 1962. She moved to Tokyo with her family at the age of four and graduated from Seiyo Girls' Junior High School. Atsuko worked as a model for a clothing company before she started attending a junior college majoring in art
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After she graduated from the college, she was invited to attend the advertising department of a construction company, but she didn't want to work there so she quit and started writing her first novel. Then it became her hobby as well as source of income since the beginning of her career as an author. After six years of experience as an author, she discovered that her first novel was published by an editor who had met her on the internet and decided to continue working on writing stories after reading some of her novels.
Since then she became very active on online literary forums and participated in many creative contests and competitions and won many awards such as "Gengo", "Chokkan", and "Jitsuroku".
Her works include:
