Fuyumi Ono (小野 不由美) is a Japanese novelist best known for writing The Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記), which was adapted into a popular anime series. She is married to Yukito Ayatsuji, the author of the horror novel Another.

Biography

Ono is married to Naoyuki Uchida (内田 直行), a mystery novelist who writes under the pseudonym Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻 行人). Her name after marriage to AYATSUJI Yukito, is UCHIDA Fuyumi, but she writes under her maiden name, which is Ono Fuyumi. Before she started work on The Twelve Kingdoms, Fuyumi Ono wrote The Demonic Child (魔性の子), a horror novel about a boy from another world. She later worked certain events from this novel into the Twelve Kingdoms series. Short stories set in the various kingdoms include: Kasho (華胥), Toei (冬栄), Shokan (書簡), Kizan (帰山) and Jogetsu (乗月). In February, 2008, a new Twelve Kingdoms short story, "Hisho no Tori" (丕緒の鳥) was published in Shinchosha's Yomyom magazine. On March 18, 2007, according to an interview at the Anime News Network, she is "currently rewriting a girls’ horror series (she) wrote long ago".

Major works

Works

Evil Spirit Series

Ghost Hunt Series

The Twelve Kingdoms

Other novels

Short story collection

Short story