Mari Kotani is the author of "Evangelion as the Immaculate Virgin" (Tokyo: Magazine House, 1997), and is also a science fiction critic.
Mari Kotani is the author of "Evangelion as the Immaculate Virgin" (Tokyo: Magazine House, 1997), and is also a science fiction critic.
Kotani translated How to Suppress Women's Writing into Japanese, and is one of the founders of the Sense of Gender Award and The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy. She is the chair of the Japan PEN Women Writers Committee and a member of SFWJ, Science Fiction Writers of Japan. Kotani is also a member of Cafe Scifi+tique, along with Norma Oyama, Kimiko Shimada, Reona Kashiwazaki, Minami Ishigami, Manami Tachibana, and Min Onouchi.
Her "Joseijou muishiki: techno-gynesis josei SF-ron josetsu," (Tokyo: Keiso shobo, 1994) won the 15th Japan SF Award (Japanese Nebula).
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