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Junko OYAMA
大山 淳子
Taiwan
Junko Ōyama was born in Tokyo in 1961 and graduated from Waseda University. She began her career as a screenwriter, winning prizes for her film and radio-drama scripts, and turned to fiction in her late forties. Her debut, the Neko-ben ("Cat Lawyer") series, won the 3rd TBS–Kodansha Drama Original Story Grand Prize in 2011, was adapted for television by TBS with Ōyama writing the script, and has sold over 530,000 copies across ten volumes. The Shop Keeps Everything series (Azukariya-san) has become one of Poplar Publishing's most loved literary series. She was a nominee for the 21st Oyabu Haruhiko Prize.
Junko OYAMA
大山 淳子
Japan
Junko Ōyama was born in Tokyo in 1961 and graduated from Waseda University. She began her career as a screenwriter, winning prizes for her film and radio-drama scripts, and turned to fiction in her late forties. Her debut, the Neko-ben ("Cat Lawyer") series, won the 3rd TBS–Kodansha Drama Original Story Grand Prize in 2011, was adapted for television by TBS with Ōyama writing the script, and has sold over 530,000 copies across ten volumes. The Shop Keeps Everything series (Azukariya-san) has become one of Poplar Publishing's most loved literary series. She was a nominee for the 21st Oyabu Haruhiko Prize.
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