Nobuko Takagi (高樹 のぶ子 Takagi Nobuko, born April 9, 1946) is the pen-name of Nobuko Tsuruta, a Japanese author. Takagi was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, graduated from the Junior College of Tokyo Woman's Christian University (now Tokyo Woman's Christian University), and first published in 1980 with Sono hosoki michi (That Narrow Road). It was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, as were her subsequent stories Tôsugiru tomo (A Distant Friend, 1981), Oikaze (A Following Wind, 1982), and Hikari idaku tomo yo (To a Friend Embracing the Light, 1983), which won the prize. Other works include Ginga no shizuku (Drops Falling from the Milky Way, 1993) and Tsuta moe (The Burning Vine, 1994).