Mariko Ōhara


Mariko Ōhara is a Japanese science fiction writer. She won the 6th Hayakawa SF Contest in 1980, when she was still a student. Later she published various SF works and became the 10th president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan. Ōhara is the Winner of the Nihon SF Taisho Award in 1994.

Biography

Ōhara was born in Osaka. She wrote Kirk/Spock fan fiction in her teens. She graduated from the Department of Literature, course of psychology, in the Seishin University.
Ōhara won the 6th Hayakawa SF Contest for her short story "Hitori de Aruite itta Neko " in 1980. Next year, in 1981, she graduated from the University and started publishing her stories in the S-F Magazine. She belongs to the 3rd generation of the Japanese SF writers.
In 1991, her "Haiburiddo Chairudo, Hybrid Child".
She was a science fiction reviewer for Asahi Shimbun from April 1998 to March 2002, and she was on the jury for the Nihon SF Taisho Awards from 1997 to 1999. She was also the 10th president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan from September 1999 to September 2001.
Ōhara is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan, of the Japanese Writers' Association, and, of the Nihon Pen Club.

Awards

Novels

Mariko Ōhara did the scenario for Quintet's video game Illusion of Gaia, alongside with Masaya Hashimoto and Tomoyoshi Miyazaki.