略歴（Biography）
河合桃子（かわい ももこ、1977年 - ）は、日本のライター、ノンフィクション作家。東京都生まれ。週刊誌を中心に執筆し、地方の農家から性風俗にまつわる事件まで幅広い現場を取材してきた。とりわけアングラな業界や事件に関わる人々への取材を重ね、その生活や人間関係を通して、事件報道だけでは見えにくい社会の一面を描いている。『地面師連絡役カトウ――積水ハウス55億円詐欺事件、ある実行犯の告白』では、積水ハウスが約55億円をだまし取られた地面師事件の実行犯の一人「カトウ」への取材をもとに、詐欺グループの内部で連絡役を担った男の人生と犯行の実態を追った。同作で第32回小学館ノンフィクション大賞を受賞している。
Momoko Kawai (born 1977) is a Japanese journalist and nonfiction writer. Born in Tokyo, she has written primarily for weekly magazines, reporting on subjects ranging from rural communities to the sex industry and other worlds that often remain outside mainstream public view. Her work focuses particularly on people involved in underground businesses and criminal cases, using extensive interviews to explore the lives and relationships behind the headlines. In "Jimenshi Renrakuyaku Kato: Sekisui Hausu 55 Oku-en Sagi Jiken, Aru Jikkohan no Kokuhaku," she investigates the land-fraud scheme in which Sekisui House was defrauded of approximately 5.5 billion yen. Drawing on interviews with "Kato," one of the participants who served as a liaison within the group, Kawai reconstructs both the mechanics of the fraud and the life of an ordinary man who became involved in an extraordinary crime. The work received the 32nd Shogakukan Nonfiction Award.
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