Nao-Cola Yamazaki

Nao-Cola Yamazaki
山崎 ナオコーラ
Yamazaki in 2016
Native name
山崎 ナオコーラ
Born山崎 直子
(1978-09-15) September 15, 1978
Kitakyushu, Japan
OccupationWriter
LanguageJapanese
Alma materKokugakuin University
Period2004–present
Genre
SubjectDiversity, Categories
Notable works
  • Hito no sekkusu o warau na
  • Utsukushii kyori
Notable awards
Children2

Nao-Cola Yamazaki (山崎 ナオコーラ, Yamazaki Nao-Cola; born 1978) is the professional name of Naoko Yamazaki (山崎 直子, Yamazaki Naoko), a Japanese writer. They pride themselves on writing "things no one else can say in words anyone can understand". Yamazaki's writing won the Bungei Prize and the Shimase Award for Love Stories, being nominated multiple times for the Akutagawa Prize. Nao-Cola has suggested to use something like the gender-neutral singular "they", because being frustrated by the usage of "she" at the english Wikipedia.