Nahoko Uehashi is the author of ten books in the Moribito series, which have sold more than a million copies and won many major literary awards in her native Japan. An associate professor at a Japanese university, she has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and studies indigenous peoples in Australia. She lives near Tokyo, Japan.
I really like this series. It’s a shame that the later volumes haven’t been translated yet into English, so I will be sad when I do get to the final English one. The story is progressing nicely and I look forward to sitting down to read a few chapters after work.