Kanae Minato

Kanae Minato

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Born 1973-01-01 Innoshima, Hiroshima, Japan 5 credit(s) Popularity 0.9
Minato Kanae is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. In youth, she was an avid fan of mystery novels of Edogawa Ranpo, Maurice Leblanc, Agatha Christie, Keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe, ...
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Minato Kanae is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan.

She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award.

In youth, she was an avid fan of mystery novels of Edogawa Ranpo, Maurice Leblanc, Agatha Christie, Keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe, and Yukito Ayatsuji.

The English edition of Minato's Confessions, published in August 2014, was described by a critic as "the Gone Girl of Japan."

Wall Street Journal selected Confessions as one of the 10 best mysteries of 2014.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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Human Specimens poster
Human Specimens
as Novel
2025-12-19
Sunset poster
Sunset
as Novel
2023-09-10
Testimony of N poster
Testimony of N
as Novel
2014-10-17
Midnight Ferris Wheel poster
Midnight Ferris Wheel
as Original Story
2013-01-18
High School Entrance Exam poster
High School Entrance Exam
as Screenplay
2012-10-06

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