Fuyumi Ono

Name	Fuyumi Ono
Birth Date	December 24, 1960
Birth Place	Ōita Prefecture, Japan
Age	53
Gender	Female
Occupation	Writer

Fuyumi Ono (小野 不由美 Ono Fuyumi) is a Japanese novelist and the creator of Ghost Hunt. She is best known for writing The Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記 Jūni Kokuki) series, on which a popular anime is based. Her married name is Fuyumi Uchida (内田 不由美 Uchida Fuyumi), but she writes under her maiden name. She is married to Naoyuki Uchida (内田 直行 Uchida Naoyuki), a mystery novelist who writes under the pseudonym Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻 行人 Ayatsuji Yukito?), and is the author of the horror novel Another.

Biography

Ono was born in Nakatsu, Ōita, Kyūshū, in 1960. She graduated from Ōtani University in Kyōto with a degree in Buddhist Studies, and in 1988 was employed by the publisher Kōdansha. Her debut novel is entitled Sleepless on Birthday Eve (バースデイ・イブは眠れない bāsudei ibu wa nemurenai).

Before she started work on The Twelve Kingdoms, Ono wrote The Demonic Child (魔性の子 Mashō no Ko), a horror novel about a boy from another world. She later worked certain events from this novel into the Twelve Kingdoms series.

On March 18, 2007, according to an interview at the Anime News Network, she was "currently rewriting a girls’ horror series (she) wrote long ago", speculated to be Ghost Hunt.