Nishi Kanako
- Name: Nishi Kanako
- Native name: 西加奈子
- Also Known as: にし かなこ
- Nationality: Japanese
- Gender: Female
- Born: May 7, 1977
- Age: 47
After graduating from university, she chose not to pursue employment and continued working as a part-time writer for "Pia" magazine, conducting store interviews. Later on, she opened a café in Tamatsukuri, Osaka, Japan, in collaboration with a friend. Around the age of 25, she began writing short stories and embarked on a journey to Tokyo alone with her confident works to become a writer. Through an introduction from an acquaintance, she met an editor from Shogakukan and made her debut with "Aoi" (あおい) in 2004. Her work "Sakura" (さくら), published in the following year (2005), became a bestseller with sales exceeding 200,000 copies. She went on to receive the Oda Sakunosuke Prize for "Tsutenkaku" (通天閣) in 2007, the Kawai Hayao Story Award for "Fukuwarai" (ふくわらい) in 2013, and the Naoki Prize for her major work "Saraba!" (サラバ!) commemorating her 10th year as a writer in 2015.
She got married in 2012 and had her first child in 2017. In December 2019, she moved with her family to Vancouver, Canada, for a two-year language study program. She returned to Japan at the end of 2022.
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