Haganai
The first "Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai" manga series, written and illustrated by Itachi, has been published in Media Factory's "Monthly Comic Alive" magazine since its May 2010 issue, released on March 27, 2010. Additionally, the series has been collected in 14 "tankōbon" volumes. Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the first manga series in North America under the title "Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends".
Kazufumi Shiraishi
Shiraishi debuted in 2000 to great critical acclaim with "Isshun no hikari (A Ray of Light)". His novel "Boku no naka no kowareteinai bubun (The Part of Me That Isn’t Broken Inside)", published in 2002, became a national best-seller and is forthcoming in translation from Dalkey Archive Press, who is also publishing Shiraishi's 2008 novel, "Kono yo no zenbu o tekini mawashite (Me Against the World)". In addition to winning the Naoki Prize, Shiraishi has also won the prestigious Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for his 2009 novel, "Kono mune ni fukabuka to tsukisasaru ya o nuke (Remove That Arrow from Deep in My Heart)". He is a member of Red Circle Authors.