Kyoko Mizuki
| Kyoko Mizuki | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 28, 1949 Tokyo, Japan |
| Pen name | Keiko Nagita (名木田 恵子 Nagita Keiko), Ayako Kazu (加津 綾子 Kazu Ayako), Akane Kouda (香田 あかね Kouda Akane), Kyoko Mizuki (水木 杏子 Mizuki Kyōko) |
| Occupation | novelist, manga writer, poet, essayist, lyricist |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Period | 1968 - present |
| Genre | romance, fantasy, Juvenile |
| Notable works | Candy Candy (1975) |
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Kyoko Mizuki (水木 杏子 Mizuki Kyōko?) is one of the pen names of Keiko Nagita (名木田 恵子 Nagita Keiko?, born November 28, 1949 in Tokyo). She is a Japanese writer who is best known for being the author of the manga and anime series Candy Candy.
Kyoko Mizuki won the Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shōjo Manga for Candy Candy in 1977 with Yumiko Igarashi.
Keiko Nagita won the Japan Juvenile Writers Association Prize for Rainette, Kin Iro no Ringo (Rainette - The Golden Apples) in 2007.
Her short story Akai Mi Haziketa is printed in Japanese Primary School Textbook for 6th grade (Mitsumura Tosho Publishing Co., Ltd.).
Her picture book Shampoo Ōji series (art by Makoto Kubota) was adapted into an anime television series in October 2007.
When she was 12 years old, her father died. Then she created "imaginary family Andrews" to relieve her loneliness and wrote their stories on a notebook. Mizuki said "I feel Andrews family have watched me affectionately. They are the origin of my story writing".
She spent a few years as an actress of Shiki Theatre Company in her late teens, and some of her works reflect this.
In eleventh-grade, she won a prize short story contest for young girls' magazine Jogakusei no Tomo. After selling her short story Yomigaeri, Soshite Natsu wa to the magazine when she was 19 years old, she decided to become a full-time writer.
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