Fuyumi Ono

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Fuyumi Ono is a Japanese novelist born December 24, 1960, in Nakatsu, Oita, who began her writing career in the late 1980s. She was a runner-up for the 1993 Japan Fantasy Novel Award for her work Strange Tokei Tales. She is best known for The Twelve Kingdoms (1992-present), which was adapted into a popular anime series, as well as the Ghost Hunt series, the horror novel Shiki, and works including The Demonic Child and the Evil Spirit (Akuryo) series. She writes under the pen name Ono Fuyumi, her maiden name, and is married to fellow novelist Yukito Ayatsuji, author of the horror novel Another.

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Books

• Sea of Shadow (1992) · The Twelve Kingdoms Core Canon
• Sea of Wind (1993) · The Twelve Kingdoms Core Canon
• A Thousand Leagues of Wind (1994) · The Twelve Kingdoms Core Canon
• Dreaming of Paradise (2001) · The Twelve Kingdoms Core Canon
• The Shore in Twilight (2001) · The Twelve Kingdoms Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 5 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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