Eiko Kadono
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Eiko Kadono (角野栄子 Kadono Eiko, Born January 1, 1935 in Tokyo) is the author of the children's novel Majo no Takkyūbin (魔女の宅急便), which was adapted into the Hayao Miyazaki film Kiki's Delivery Service. There are at least four books in the Kiki series.
A quote from her site states that "in 1960, when I was 25 years old, I've spent 2 years in Brasil as emigrant." She wrote a nonfiction story called Brazil and My Friend Luizinho based on her experience at that time. It's about "a brazilian boy who loves dancing samba." This, apparently, became her maiden work in 1970. Her career started like this and after 7 years of writing by herself, her books were published.
She wrote her first books in Brazil in the 1960s. Most of her work is books for children. She published Kiki in 1985. Kiki (the character) was not particularly good at flying. Kiki's mother would hang bells at the top of every tall tree in town, so that if Kiki were to run into a tree, she could hear it.
The only request Kadono made of Hayao Miyazaki for the anime adaptation of her work was that Kiki ring the bells as she left town.
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