, born 6 February 1956, is a
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
novelist.
His real name is Yasuhiro Okuizumi.
Biography
Okuizumi was born in
Mikawa,
Yamagata Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Yamagata Prefecture has a population of 1,079,950 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 9,325 km² (3,600 sq mi). Yamagata Prefecture borders Akita Prefecture to the nor ...
, and attended high school in
Saitama Prefecture, before studying
Humanities
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...
at
ICU in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
. He completed a master's course at the same university, but dropped out midway through his doctoral course. In 1993, he won the
Noma Literary Prize for New Writers for the novel, ''Novalis no Inyō'', and the
Akutagawa Prize
The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is, along with the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most sought after literary prizes.
History
Th ...
for ''The Stones Cry Out'' the following year. ''The Stones Cry Out'' has been translated into a number of languages including English and French. Okuizumi started working at
Kinki University
is a private non-sectarian and coeducational university based in Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan with campuses in five other locations: Nara, Nara; Ōsakasayama, Osaka; Uchita, Wakayama; Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima; and Iizuka, Fukuoka.
The En ...
in 1999, and continues to teach there.
Awards
*Noma Literary Prize for New Writers (1993)
*Akutagawa Prize (1994)
*
Noma Literary Prize
The Noma Literary Prize (''Noma Bungei Shō'') was established in 1941 by the Noma Service Association (''Noma Hōkō Kai'') in accordance with the last wishes of Seiji Noma (1878–1938), founder and first president of the Kodansha publishing c ...
(2009）
*
Tanizaki Prize
The Tanizaki Prize (谷崎潤一郎賞 ''Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Shō''), named in honor of the Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, is one of Japan's most sought-after literary awards. It was established in 1965 by the publishing company Chūō K ...
(2014) for ''Tōkyō jijoden''
Selected works
* ''Novalis no Inyō'' (1993)
* ''The Stones Cry Out'' (Japanese title: ''Ishi no Raireki'') (1993)
* ''Banal na Genshō'' (1994)
* ''Wagahai wa Neko de Aru Satsujin Jiken'' (1996)
* ''Plato Gakuen'' (1997)
* ''Grand Mystery'' (1998)
* ''Chōrui Gakusha no Fantasy'' (2001)
* ''The New Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (2002–2003)
* ''Modaru na Jishō'' (2005)
* ''Shinki: Gunkan "Kashihara" Satsujin Jiken''（2009）
* ''Shuman no yubi''（2010）
* ''Kuwagata Kōichi Junkyōju no sutairisshu na seikatsu''（2011）
* ''Chi no tori ten no gyogun''（2011年9月 幻戯書房）
* ''Kiiroi mizugi no nazo: kuwagata kōichi junkyōju no sutairisshu na seikatsu 2''（2012）
* ''Chūju ongakushū'' （2012）
* ''Mefisutoferesu no teiri: Jigoku sheikusupia sanbusaku''（2013）
* ''Tōkyō jijoden''（2014）
References
External links
J'Lit , Authors : Hikaru Okuizumi , Books from Japan
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Akutagawa Prize winners
20th-century Japanese novelists
21st-century Japanese novelists
Japanese mystery writers
1956 births
Living people
People from Yamagata Prefecture
International Christian University alumni
Writers from Yamagata Prefecture