{"id":66346,"date":"2026-07-05T20:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=66346"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:52:59","slug":"kikis-delivery-service-author-eiko-kadono-is-91-loves-pink-and-never-tires-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=66346","title":{"rendered":"Kiki\u2019s Delivery Service author Eiko Kadono is 91, loves pink and never tires of writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/07\/03\/cfcca967-8117-42fb-bc50-7d1b0f5fd073_6f3208d6.jpg?itok=Pl_M8-KP&amp;v=1783078414\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Eiko Kadono, the author behind Japan\u2019s most famous \u2013 and almost certainly most beloved \u2013 literary witch, has a little trouble going up the stairs these days.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At 91, she is still writing every day and has not stopped loving the colour pink, dressing up or believing in the magic of books.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Kiki\u2019s Delivery Service<\/em>, which was published in 1985 and turned into a 1989 animation by <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Hayao Miyazaki<\/span>\u2019s Studio Ghibli, is among more than 200 books she has written.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI never tire of writing,\u201d she says at her home in the picturesque seaside town of Kamakura, south of Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With a little pink gate, the house is filled with books, pink chairs and her collection of animal figures.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI\u2019m probably a child at heart,\u201d Kadono says with a small laugh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3359097\/kikis-delivery-service-author-eiko-kadono-91-loves-pink-and-never-tires-writing?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eiko Kadono, the author behind Japan\u2019s most famous \u2013 and almost certainly most beloved \u2013 literary witch, has a little trouble going up the stairs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7799,3426,26002,26003,26001,2278,1843,3770,26004,3190],"class_list":["post-66346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-author","tag-delivery","tag-eiko","tag-kadono","tag-kikis","tag-loves","tag-pink","tag-service","tag-tires","tag-writing","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}