& Tsui Company, 2011) Awards and nominations Japanese Awards 1993 – Edogawa Rampo Prize: Kao ni Furikakaru Ame (Rain Falling on My Face) 1998 – Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel: Out 1998 – The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1998): Out 1999 – Naoki Prize: Yawarakana Hoho (Soft Cheeks) 2003 – Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature: Grotesque 2004 – Shibata Renzaburo Award: Zangyakuki 2008 – Tanizaki Prize: Tokyo Island (Novel) 2009 – Murasaki Shikibu Prize: The Goddess Chronicle 2011 – Yomiuri Prize: Nanika Aru 2015 – Japan's Government Medals of Honor (Japan) for distinguished performances and contributions to society. U.S. Awards 2004 – Nominee for Edgar Award for Best Novel: Out Major works Detective Miro Murano series Novels Kao ni furikakaru ame (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993) Tenshi ni misuterareta yoru (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1994) Mizu no nemuri hai no yume (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1998) Dāku [Dark] (Tokyo: Kodansha: 2002) Short story collection Rōzu gāden [Rose Garden] (Tokyo: Kodansha, 2000) Fireball Blues Faiabōru burūsu [Fireball Blues] (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1995) Faiabōru burūsu 2 [Fireball Blues 2] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 2001) Standalone novels Auto (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1997); English translation by Stephen Snyder as Out (New York: Kodansha, 2003; New York: Vintage, 2005) Yawarakana hoho (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1999); Kogen (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 2000) Gyokuran (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 2001) Riaru warudo (Tokyo: Shueisha, 2003); English translation by J. Philip Gabriel as Real World (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) Gurotesuku (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 2003); English translation by Rebecca L. Copeland as Grotesque (New York: Knopf, 2007) Zangyakuki (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2004) Aimu sōrī mama [I'm sorry, mama.] (Tokyo: Shueisha, 2004) Tamamoe! (Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 2005) Bōken no kuni (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2005) Metabora (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 2007) Tōkyō-jima (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2008) Joshinki (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 2008); English translation by Rebecca L. Copeland as The Goddess Chronicle (Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2013) In [In] (Tokyo: Shueisha, 2009) Nanika aru (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2010) Yasashii Otona (Tokyo: Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2010) Poritikon (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 2011) Midori no doku (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 2011) Hapinesu [Happiness] (Tokyo: Kōbunsha, 2013) Short story collections Sabiru kokoro (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1997) Jiorama [Diorama] (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1998) Ambosu mundosu [Ambos Mundos] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 2005) Further reading Rebecca L. Copeland, "Woman Uncovered: Pornography and Power in the Detective Fiction of Kirino Natsuo", Japan Forum 16/2 (2004): 249–69. Amanda C. Seaman, Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society, and Detective Fiction in 1990s Japan