Mariko Ōhara

Mariko Ōhara
Born (1959-03-20) March 20, 1959
Osaka, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Alma mater University of the Sacred Heart
Notable awards 1991 Seiun Award for Haiburiddo Chairudo
1980 Nihon SF Taisho Award for Senso-wo Enjita Kamigamitachi

Mariko Ōhara (大原まり子, Ōhara Mariko, born March 20, 1959 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese science fiction writer. In her teens, she wrote Kirk/Spock fan fiction. She graduated from Seishin University and her writing career began in 1980.

In 1991 her Haiburiddo Chairudo (Hybrid Child) won the Seiun Award for Japanese novel. Then in 1995 she won the 15th Nihon SF Taisho Award for Senso-wo Enjita Kamigamitachi (Gods who Bandied War).[1] From 1997 to 1999 she was on the jury for the Taisho awards. At present she is a science fiction reviewer for Asahi Shimbun and a member of the Japanese Writers' Association. In addition to this she was president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan from September 1999 to September 2001.

Works in English translation

  • "The Mental Female" (The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 2002)
  • "Girl" (Speculative Japan, Kurodahan Press, 2007)[2]
  • "The Whale that Sang on the Milky Way Network" (Speculative Japan 2, Kurodahan Press, 2011)[3]
  • Hybrid Child (trans. Jodie Beck, University of Minnesota Press, 2018)[4]

Video game works

Mariko Ōhara did the scenario for Quintet's video game Illusion of Gaia, alongside with Masaya Hashimoto and Tomoyoshi Miyazaki.

References

  1. ↑ "Nihon SF Taisho Award Winners List". Science Fiction Writers of Japan. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  2. ↑ Speculative Japan | Kurodahan Press
  3. ↑ Speculative Japan 2 | Kurodahan Press
  4. ↑ Kosaka, Kris (August 25, 2018). "'Hybrid Child': Enter a sprawling excursion into the unknown". The Japan Times. Retrieved September 22, 2018.


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