Yasumi Kobayashi (小林泰三) (7 August 1962 – 23 November 2020) was a Japanese

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of horror,

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and

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Career

His short story "The Man Who Watched the Sea" won the

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for best short story in 1998. Two more were nominated for the

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for best short story; "Sora kara Kaze ga Yamu Toki" in 2003, and "Arakajime Kettei Sareteiru Ashita" in 2004. He received the Seiun Award for novels in 2012 for ''Tengoku to jigoku'', and in 2017 for ''Ultraman F''.

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Award of Merit was awarded posthumously. In 2009, he was nominated as "Best Foreign Author" in the Chinese-language Galaxy Awards.

Works in English translation

*"C-City" (''Lairs of the Hidden Gods, Volume 3: Straight to Darkness'', Kurodahan Press, 2006) *"The Man Who Watched the Sea" (''Speculative Japan 2'', Kurodahan Press, 2011)Speculative Japan 2 , Kurodahan Press
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References

External links

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Official website

Entry
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kobayashi, Yasumi 1962 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists Japanese male short story writers Japanese science fiction writers Japanese horror writers Japanese mystery writers Osaka University alumni Writers from Kyoto 20th-century Japanese short story writers 21st-century Japanese short story writers 20th-century Japanese male writers 21st-century male writers