Maha Harada

Quick Facts

Full Name	Maha Harada
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jul 14, 1962(1962-07-14)
Age	62
Birthplace	Kodaira
Country	Japan
Birth City	Tokyo
Horoscope	Cancer

Maha Harada Biography

Maha Harada is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on July 14, 1962 in Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan. Harada was born 1962 in Kodaira in Tokyo, Japan. Her father was a dealer of art books and encyclopedias. Harada suffered bullying at school and began writing stories to overcome her isolation. After graduating from Okayama High School, she entered Kwansei Gekuin University to study German literature. However, she later switched her focus to Japanese literature and received a degree. After graduating, she was a graphic designer, married her husband, and then worked in various art direction and curation positions, including five years at Itochu, a Japanese conglomerate. She also attended graduate school in art history at Waseda University. Harada was later an art curator at the Mori Art Museum. She also worked with the Museum of Modern Art. However, she left to become a freelance curator in 2002.

For her 2016 novel RichiSensei (richiXianSheng, Master Leach), Harada was awarded the 36th Nitta Jiro Literary Prize. This historical fiction work, in which a Japanese orphan becomes a skilled potter, under the guidance of Bernard Leach, a British ceramic artist, won the 36th Nitta Jiro Poetry Prize. Popurasha published her 2018 book Sweet Home (suitohomu, Suitohomu), a collection of connected stories about a local pastry shop. She was nominated for the fourth Naoki Prize in 2018 for her novel Utsukushii taburo (Mei ShikiYu kamonotachinotaburo).

Harada was again nominated for the Naoki Prize twice more, but he did not win. Harada’s 2013 novel Jiveruni no shokutaku, zivueruninoShi Zhuo – Dinner Tables of Giverny, is a historical fiction work that tells stories from women about the lives of French painters Claude Monet and Henri Matisse. Anmaku no Guernica, her 2016 suspense novel (An Mu nogerunika, Guernica under Cover), is nominated for a 155th Naoki Prize. It is a thriller about Picasso’s return to the Museum of Modern Art.

Maha Harada Net Worth

Maha Harada is one of the richest Novelist from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Maha Harada 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Harada also wrote many more novels after her debut. In 2007, her novel Ippunkan dake (Yi Fen Jian dake, Only a Moment), was later adapted into a 2014 film with the same title, which was made in Taiwan and then released in Japan. Honjitsu wa ohigara m yoku, her 2010 novel (Ben Ri ha oRi Bing moyoku – Today is a Good Day), is about a woman whose romance leads to her success as a speechwriter. It was later adapted into the 2017 Wowow TV drama starring Manami Haiga and Kyoko Hasegawa. Runway Beat, her 2010 cell phone novel (ranueibito, Ran’uei loto), which is about teens who organize a fashion show was made into the Kentaro Otani film Runway Beat, starring Mirei Kiritani and Nanami Sakuraba. Her 2011 novel Dere garuzu (deregaruzu, Fantastic Girls), which is about a broken friendship that leads to a reunion between two high school students in Okayama in the 1980s, was later made into a 2015 Akiko Ohku film featuring Rika Adachi, Mio Yuki, and other characters.

Shinchosha published Harada’s novel Rakuen no kanvasu (Le Yuan nokanvuasu – Painting of Paradise) in 2012. It is a story about a disgraced curator of art who was asked to assist with negotiations for a painting whose origin she had previously investigated. Rakuen no Kanvasu was awarded the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize 25th. The book was later nominated for a 147th Naoki Prize. However, the prize went to Mizuki Takimura.

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Facts & Trivia

Maha Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Maha Harada celebrates birthday on July 14 of every year.