Person: Uehashi Nahoko

Uehashi Nahoko was born July 15, 1962 in Tokyo, Japan. She is a Japanese writer, most famous for the "Guardian" (守り人, moribito) series, which sold over 1.5 million copies in Japan. One of her novels, Guardian of the Sacred Spirit (Seirei no Moribito) has been adapted into an anime television series, a manga, and a radio drama. The same book was published in English from Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic in the summer of 2008, under the title Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, along with the sequel in Winter 2009. Her recent book, "Kemono no Souja" will be translated into German, Korean, Swedish, Thai and French. The same series has also been adapted into a manga in 2008, and an anime in 2009.

She is an author of juvenile literature, mostly fantasy. Uehashi is also an assistant professor teaching ethnology (especially the Australian Aborigines) at the Japanese University, Kawamura Gakuen Joshi Daigaku.