Miyabe was born in the K?t? ward of Tokyo, Japan and graduated from Sumidagawa High School. She started writing novels at the age of 23. In 1984, while working at a law office, Miyabe began to take writing classes at a writing school run by the Kodansha publishing company. Her debut work is considered to be her 1987 short story "Warera ga rinjin no hanzai" (????????). She has been a prolific writer, publishing dozens of novels and winning many major literary prizes, including the Yamamoto Sh?gor? Prize in 1993 for Kasha and the Naoki Prize in 1998 for Riy? [The Reason] (??). A Japanese film adaptation of Riyû, directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, was released in 2004 (reviewed by Mark Schilling in The Japan Times (5 January 2005)).

• Perfect Blue (??????????) (1989, ISBN 4488411010)
• Majyutsuwa sasayaku = The Devil's Whisper (???????) (1989)
• Wareraga rinjin no hanzai (????????) (1990, ISBN 4061487396)
• Tokyo (Waterfront) Satsujin Kureiro = The Murders in Downtown Tokyo (?? (???????????????) (1990 ?????????????????)
• Level 7 (???7) (1990)
• Ryu-wa nemuru (????) (1991)
• Honjyo Fukagawa Fushigizoushi (?????????) (1991, ISBN 4101369151)
• Henjiwa iranai (???????) (1991, ISBN 4101369135)
• Kamaitachi (?????) (1992)
• Konyawa nemurenai (???????) (1992)
• Suna-ku gari (??????) (1992, ISBN 4334724094)
• Kasha = All She was Worth (??) (1992, ISBN 4101369186)
• Nagai nagai Satsujin (??????) (1992, ISBN 4334728278)
• Torinokosarete (??????) (1992, ISBN 4167549026)
• Stepfather Step (?????????????) (1993)
• Furueru Iwa - Reigen Ohatsu Torimonohikae-1 (???? ???????1) (1991)
• Sabishii karyudo (?????) (1993)
• Chikagaino ame (?????) (1994)
• Maboroshiiro Edogoyomi (???????) (1994)
• Yumenimo omowanai (???????) (1995, ISBN 4043611021)
• Hatsu monogatari (??????) (1995)
• Itokichino Koi (????) (???????/????????1996????)
• Hatobuesou (???) (1995)
• Hitojichi Canon (?????) (1996, ISBN 4167549042)
• Gamoutei jiken (?????) (1996)
• Kanninbako (???) (1996)
• Tengukaze Reigen Ohatsu Torimonohikae-2 (??? ???????2) (1997, ISBN 4062732572)
• Kokoro torokasuyouna Masa-no Jikenbo(???????? ??????) (1997, ISBN 4488411029)
• Riy? (??) (1998)
• Crossfire (???????) (1998)
• Bonkura (????) (2000)?
• Ayashi (??? ?) (2000)?
• Mohouhan (???) (2001)
• R.P.G. = Shadow Family (2001, ISBN 408747349X)
• Dream Buster (????????) 1-4 (2001—07)
• Akanbee (?????) (2002)
• Brave Story (??????????) (2003)
• Dareka (??) Somebody (2003)
• ICO -Kirino shiro- (?????) (2004, ISBN 4062124416)
• Higurashi (????) (2005)?
• Koshukuno hito (????) (2005)?
• Namonaki doku (?????) (2006, ISBN 4344012143)
• Rakuen (??) (2007)
• Osoroshi Mishimayahenchou Hyakumonogatari Kotohajime (???? ??????????)?(2008)?
• Eiy? no sho = The Book of Heroes (????) (2009)
• Kogure Shashinkan (?????)?(2010)

Works in English translation

• All She Was Worth (original title: Kasha), trans. Alfred Birnbaum (Mariner Books, 1999)
• Crossfire, trans. Deborah Iwabuchi and Anna Isozaki (Kodansha America, 2006)
• Shadow Family (original title: R.P.G.), trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter (Kodansha America, 2006)
• Brave Story, trans. Alexander O. Smith (VIZ Fiction, 2007)
• The Devil's Whisper (original title: Majutsu wa sasayaku), trans. Deborah Iwabuchi (Kodansha America, 2007)
• The Book of Heroes (original title: Eiyu no sho), trans. Alexander O. Smith (Haikasoru, 2010)
• The Sleeping Dragon (original title: Ryuu wa nemuru), trans. Deborah Iwabuchi (Kodansha America, 2010)

Criticism

• Amanda C. Seaman, Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society, and Detective Fiction in 1990s Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2004), 26—56 (on All She Was Worth)
• Idem, "There goes the neighbourhood: community and family in Miyabe Miyuki's Riyû," Japan Forum 16/2 (2004): 271—87

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