Hiromi Goto

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in Chiba-ken, Japan

December 31, 1966

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Hiromi’s first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms (1994), received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canada region and was co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. Her short stories and poetry have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. Her second novel, The Kappa Child (2001), was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Regional Book, and was awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award. Her first children’s novel, The Water of Possibility, was also published that year. Hopeful Monsters, a collection of short stories, was released in 2004. Her YA/Crossover novel, Half World (2009), was long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and received the 2010 Sunburst Award an...more

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Writing Craft: Conveying Narrative/POV

For a great many of developing writers we often begin writing a story intuitively. We have a character, an idea, a vision, and a goal. And we begin. We don’t necessarily have the knowledge to name the component parts that make up a story. We don’t necessarily understand what, exactly, it is we are doing. We can do a great deal of writing without knowing the names of the elements of fiction. How...

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Hiromi Goto's Books

Average rating: 3.92 · 2,550 ratings · 283 reviews · 9 distinct works · Similar authors

	Half World (Half World, #1) 3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kappa Child 3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2001	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chorus Of Mushrooms 3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkest Light (Half World, #2) 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hopeful Monsters 3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Water of Possibility by Hiromi Goto, Aries Cheung (Illustrator), Janet Lunn (Preface) 3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (editor), Terri Windling (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,639 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ellen Kushner 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Literary Pluralities by Christi Verduyn (Editor), Janice Kulyk Keefer (Contribution by), Himani Bannerji (Contribution by) 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Half World (2 books)
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“A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.”
― Hiromi Goto

tags: childhood, growing-up

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“She was responsible for the things she chose. That's all. She almost managed a tiny smile. It was simultaneously an incredible responsibility and almost nothing at all, she thought wonderingly.”
― Hiromi Goto, Half World

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“To be able to bring change into a fixed world, [she] thought. There is power in that.”
― Hiromi Goto, Half World

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