is a Japanese author from Hy?go Prefecture, in the Kinki region of Japan. He is a graduate of the law school at Kwansei Gakuin University. He is best known for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya for which he won the grand prize at eighth annual Sneaker Awards and has been adapted as an anime television series. Though all of Tanigawa's light novel series have been on hiatus for several years, he started working on a manga series titled Kagerou Meiky?; the first bound volume was released on in August 2009.