Mizuki Tsujimura

Tsujimura Mizuki (辻村深月) (b. February 29, 1980) is a Japanese writer from Fuefuki, Yamanashi. She writes both for adults and children and specializes in mystery novels. She has been writing them since she was a high school student. She decided to go to Chiba University because there was a mystery research group. Her debut novel A School Frozen in Time was published in 2004. She professes herself to be a fan of Doraemon and wrote the screenplay for the movie, Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration and its novel version in 2018. After being shortlisted several times for the Naoki Prize, she received it in 2012 for her novel Kagi no nai Yume wo Miru (I Saw a Dream Without a Key). Tsujimura won the 2018 Japan Booksellers' Award for her novel Lonely Castle in the Mirror.