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Tomomi Hatano

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Hatano Tomomi

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1979-05-19 （Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan）
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Residence History
Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Career

Occupations
Novelist
Active Years
2011-
Nominations
34th Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Newcomer Award — nominated (Umi no mieru machi), 35th Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Newcomer Award — nominated (Nanbu Geinō Jimusho)

Education

Toko Gakuen Junior & Senior High School
Country: Japan
Tokyo Jogakkan Junior College
Department of International Culture
Country: Japan
Graduated from the Department of International Culture

Awards

Subaru New Writers' Award
2010
Work: Family Restaurant Along the Highway
Organization: Shueisha
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Family Restaurant Along the Highway

2011 Coming-of-age fiction

Debut work. Set around a highway-side family restaurant, it gently depicts the daily lives and shifting relationships of young people.

friendshipcoming-of-ageeveryday life

Summer Bus Pool

2012 Short story collection

A short story collection portraying youths' emotions and relationships through fragmentary slices of daily life.

youthlonelinessconnections

The Town with a View of the Sea

2012 Linked short stories

A linked collection set in a seaside town, connecting multiple characters' episodic stories to reveal subtleties of everyday life and inner states.

subtleties of everyday lifefamilymemory

Nanbu Performing Arts Agency

2013 Series of connected stories

Set in a performing-arts agency, this series of connected stories follows young people and performers, exploring the interplay between work and private life.

performing artswork and lifehuman relationships

Maryland

2014 Short story collection

A collection of short stories that carefully depicts intersecting moments in the lives of various characters.

intersecting livesrelationships

Spring Storm

2015 Short story collection

A short story collection delicately portraying fluctuating emotions of young people and family ties.

growthfamilyemotional turbulence

Two Stars and a Time Machine

2014 Short stories with small SF elements

A short story collection mixing light sci-fi elements, collecting tales of young characters revolving around time and memory.

timememoryyouth

Everyone's Secret

2015 Novel

A novel that carefully explores the inner secrets held by its various characters.

secretshuman psychology

Bibliography

  • Family Restaurant Along the Highway
  • Summer Bus Pool
  • The Town with a View of the Sea
  • Nanbu Performing Arts Agency
  • Maryland
  • Spring Storm
  • Audition
  • Combi
  • Two Stars and a Time Machine
  • Haru at the End of Summer
  • Everyone's Secret
  • Emotion Line No. 8
  • Aftermath of Sin
  • A Tomorrow You Can't Reach by Time Machine
  • House and Garden
  • The Unfading Moon
  • Cinema Complex
  • When I Become an Adult,
  • Inside the Fish Tank
  • Waiting for God
  • Life at Wakabaso
  • Twililight

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Realistic narration emphasizing everyday scenesA tone mixing quiet restraint with understated humorFrequent use of linked short-story collections
Recurring Motifs
friendshipfamilymemoryyouthful everyday lifeperforming arts

Legacy

Known for finely描ing the subtleties of youth and everyday life. After winning a new-writers award, she has published a steady body of short stories and linked collections, earning recognition as a contemporary young novelist.

Trivia

  • At age 20 she met voice actress Mamiko Noto at a theater workshop.
  • She worked part-time at manga cafés, a newspaper company, a movie theater, and a publisher (Byakuya Shobo) while aiming to become a novelist.
  • In 2010 she won the 23rd Subaru New Writers' Award for 'Family Restaurant Along the Highway' and debuted in 2011.
  • She attended Toko Gakuen Junior & Senior High School and graduated from Tokyo Jogakkan Junior College (Department of International Culture).