birth_place awards notableworks language birth_date genre article_title name occupation
shimane prefecture , japan mystery prize -lrb- 2007 -rrb- writers of japan award -lrb- 2007 -rrb- naoki '' the legend of the akakuchibas '' gosick '' series , '' red girls : japanese 26 july 1971 fiction , light novel , crime fiction kazuki sakuraba
 kazuki sakuraba writer
kazuki sakuraba

born in 1971 , she began her career writing novelizations , but the bestselling mystery series `` gosick '' brought her work with several light novel publishers , and her novel `` a lollypop or a bullet '' placed third in the 2006 kono light novel ga sugoi !
ranking .
the novel proved so popular it was republished by kadokawa as a mainstream novel .
in recent years , she has published several novels through other mainstream publishers as well , making her one of the few light novelists to make that leap .
in 2007 , her novel '' '' was nominated for the naoki prize .
in 2008 , she was nominated for a second time , for `` watashi no otoko '' -lrb- `` my man '' -rrb- , and won the prize .
