Yoru Sumino Explained

Period:	2015–present
Notable Works:	I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Genre:	Light novel, coming-of-age story
Occupation:	Novelist
Birth Place:	Japan
Native Name:	住野よる
Native Name Lang:	ja

is a Japanese novelist currently living in Osaka Prefecture.^[1]

Biography

Sumino started writing in high school.^[2] He initially submitted a story for the Dengeki Novel Prize, however after not making it past the first round of selection, Sumino revised his writing style before writing I Want to Eat Your Pancreas; the manuscript ended up being too long to be submitted for the prize.

He submitted the novel to the user-generated fiction website Shōsetsuka ni Narō in February 2014 under the pen name . He later officially debuted with the same work under Futabasha in 2015.^[3]

Works

(Illustrated by loundraw, published by Futabasha, June 2015, ISBN 978-4-575-23905-8)
(Illustrated by loundraw, published by Futabasha, February 2016, ISBN 978-4-575-23945-4)
(Published by Futabasha, December 2016, ISBN 978-4-575-24007-8)
(Published by Shinchosha, March 2017, ISBN 978-4-10-350831-1)
(Published by Kadokawa, March 2018, ISBN 978-4-04-105206-8)
(Published by Gentosha, March 2019, ISBN 978-4-344-03435-8)
- (Published by Gentosha, February 2021, ISBN 978-4-344-03756-4)
(Published by Shinchosha, September 2020, ISBN 978-4-10-350832-8)
(Published by Futabasha, July 2022, ISBN 9784575245431)
(Published by Bungeishunjū, February 2023, ISBN 978-4-16-391660-6)

Notes and References

Web site: June 12, 2018. 「僕」が見つけたクラスメイトの秘密の日記帳。涙が止まらない感動のデビュー作『君の膵臓をたべたい』（住野よる著）｜インタビュー・対談｜「別冊文藝春秋」編集部｜本の話WEB. July 18, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141919/http://hon.bunshun.jp/articles/-/4207. June 12, 2018. ja.
Book: Sumino, Yoru. Kimi no suizō o tabetai. 2015. 978-4-575-23905-8. Tokyo. 911260609.
Web site: Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai Coming-of-Age Novel Gets Anime Film in 2018. July 18, 2021. Anime News Network.