was a Japanese author. He won the 1974

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for ''Ano yūhi'' (''The Evening Sun'') and the 22nd

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for . Born in Tokyo, he accompanied his parents to Korea, when the country was still under Japanese colonial rule. After the war, he returned to Japan, graduating from the

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and joining the staff of the

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, a leading Japanese newspaper in 1952. He served as a foreign correspondent in South Korea and Vietnam before becoming a novelist. Though he is often described as an environmentalist author, the focus of much of his fiction is the urban physical environment. Hino's works are striking for being simultaneously autobiographical and surrealistic. His novel ''Yume no Shima'' has been translated into English by Charles de Wolf as ''Isle of Dreams'', and into German by Jaqueline Berndt and Hiroshi Yamane as ''Trauminsel''; a short story, Bokushikan, has been translated into English by Charles de Wolf as The Rectory; another short story, Hashigo no tatsu machi 梯の立つ街, has been translated by Lawrence Rogers as "Jacob's Tokyo Ladder" and printed in 2002's '' Tokyo stories: a literary stroll''.

Selected works

* ''Seinaru kanata e : waga tamashii no henreki'', Kyoto : PHP Kenkyūjo, 1981. * ''Hōyō'', Tokyo :

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, 1982. * ''Tenmado no aru garēji'', Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1982. * ''Kagaku no saizensen'', Tokyo : Gakuseisha, 1982. * ''Seikazoku'', Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1983. * ''Nazukerarenu mono no kishibe nite'', Tokyo : Shuppan Shinsha, 1984. * , Tokyo :

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, 1985. Translated as ''Isle of Dreams'' by Charles de Wolf: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010. * , Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1986. * , Tōkyō : Sakuhinsha, 1987. * , Tokyo : Shueisha, 1987. * , Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1988. * , Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1990. * , Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1992. * , Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1993.

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Keizo Hino
at J'Lit Books from Japan

at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) 1929 births 2002 deaths Writers from Tokyo Japanese writers Akutagawa Prize winners Deaths from cancer in Japan Deaths from colorectal cancer 20th-century novelists {{Japan-writer-stub