Michiko Aoyama Author

Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture. After graduating from university, she worked for two years as a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine editor for a publishing company in Tokyo. Her debut novel Cocoa on Thursday won the inaugural Miyazaki Book Award. A later work, The Cat's Tale Under the Tree won the Tenryu Literature Prize. Her other works include Kamakura Uzumaki information Centre; God is on Duty Now; Monday Matcha Café; My Present; Usual Thursday; In the Moon Forest and Red, Blue and Esquisse. Along with the latter title, What You are Looking for is in the Library won the Japan Booksellers' Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than fifteen languages. She lives in Yokohama, Japan.