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Shion Miura
🇯🇵Japan
Shion Miura is a Japanese novelist whose The Great Passage (Fune wo Amu, 2011) — the story of an obsessive young lexicographer and his team's decade-long effort to compile a new Japanese dictionary — became a major bestseller and an award-winning film, capturing the imagination of Japanese readers who saw in its subject something essential about their own relationship to language.
The novel won the Book of the Year award from Da Vinci magazine and was adapted into a celebrated anime series and film. Miura writes about work and craft and the kind of passionate, quiet dedication that produces lasting things, and she finds in the dictionary — that most collaborative and most humane of projects — a vehicle for genuine feeling.
