Marie Kondo

Marie Kondo (近藤 麻理恵 Kondō Marie, born 9 October 1984) is a Japanese organizing consultant and author.

Kondo has written four books on organizing, which have collectively sold millions of copies and have been translated from Japanese into languages including Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Indonesian, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and English. In particular, her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2011) has been published in more than 30 countries. It was a best-seller in Japan and in Europe, and was published in the United States in 2014.

She was listed as one of Time's "100 most influential people" in 2015.

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