is a Japanese author.

Biography

Katayama was born in the

Ehime Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Ehime Prefecture has a population of 1,342,011 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 5,676 km2 (2,191 sq mi). Ehime Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the northeast, T ...

and graduated from

Kyushu University , abbreviated to , is a Japanese national university located in Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu. It was the 4th Imperial University in Japan, ranked as 4th in 2020 Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings, one of the top 10 Design ...

. Katayama's first major book was '' Kehai'' (Sign). The book won the Bungakkai Newcomers award. Katayama wrote the book ''

Socrates in Love is a 2001 Japanese melodrama novel, written by Kyoichi Katayama and published by Shogakukan, which revolves around narrator Sakutaro Matsumoto's recollections of a school classmate whom he once loved. It is also known as , which author Ka ...

'' (also known as ''Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World''). The book was adapted into a

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(illustrated by

Kazumi Kazui is a Japanese manga artist. She made her debut in 2000 in a special edition of '' Petit Comic'' with ''Watashi no Iru Basho'' (''The Place Where I Am''), and later worked on the manga adaptation of ''Socrates in Love''. Her current work '' Dōs ...

),a film and a

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. ''Socrates in Love'' was his first and, as of 2008, only book translated into English. Katayama's works: * '' Kehai'' (''Sign'') * ''

'' (''Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World'') * '' John Lennon o Shinjiru na'' (''Don't Believe in John Lennon'') * '' Mangetsu no Yoru, Moby Dick ga'' (''Night of the Full Moon, Moby Dick'') * '' Moshimo Watashi ga, Soko ni Irunaraba'' (''If I Were There'')

References

20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists 1959 births Living people Writers from Ehime Prefecture Kyushu University alumni {{Japan-writer-stub