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Natsu Hyuuga

Natsu Hyūga is a Japanese novelist. She is originally from and currently lives in Fukuoka Prefecture. Her debut novel, The Apothecary Diaries, which she posted under the pen name Uribō (うりぼう) on the novel submission website Shōsetsuka ni Narō, was published in 2012. She then changed her pen name to Hyūganatsu at the suggestion of her editor. Her pen name comes from her favorite fruit and is not a person's name, so it is treated as one word, 'Hyuganatsu', rather than "Hyūga Natsu", with no distinction between her first and last name.