Ryō Wada.

Born in Osaka in 1969, he graduated from university with the goal of working in the world of film, but resigned as an assistant director just three years after entering a television production company.

In 2003 he won the Kido Award, convened by the Japan Film Producers Association to discover and promote new screenwriters, and in 2007 he made his debut as a fiction writer with a historical novel, Nobō no shiro (The Fool's Castle). . The work was nominated for the Naoki Award and became a bestseller, reaching two million copies sold. A film adaptation was released in 2012.

In 2013 Wada published the two-volume historical novel Murakami kaizoku no Musume (Murakami's Pirate's Daughter), which won both the 2014 Booksellers Award and the Eiji Yoshikawa Young Writers Award, and quickly became a hit by sales, selling in a short time more than a million copies of the two volumes.

The Pirate's Daughter Murakami is a highly addictive novel, with spectacular action scenes, which has made Wada one of the greatest exponents of the new generation of entertainment writers.