is a Japanese novelist.
He was born in
Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most pop ...
, Japan, and has published stories since 1977, especially young adult
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
.
Works in English translation
;Crime Novel
*''Labyrinth'' (original title: ''Meikyū''), trans.
Deborah Iwabuchi (
Shueisha
(lit. "Gathering of Intellect Publishing Co., Ltd.") is a Japanese company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company was established in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The foll ...
English Edition, 2013)
''Labyrinth'', Shueisha English Edition
;Short stories
*''Japanese Entrance Exams for Earnest Young Men'' (original title: ''Kokugo nyūshi mondai hisshōhō''), trans. Jeffrey Hunter (''Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction'', Kodansha
is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...
International, 1991)
*''Jack and Betty Forever'' (original title: ''Eien no Jyakku & Betti''), trans. Frederik L. Schodt
Frederik L. Schodt (born January 22, 1950) is an American translator, interpreter and writer.
Biography
Schodt's father was in the US foreign service, and he grew up in Norway, Australia, and Japan. The family first went to Japan in 1965 wh ...
(''The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Volume 2, From 1945 to the Present'', Columbia University Press, 2007)
Awards and nominations
* 1988 - Yoshikawa Eiji
was a Japanese historical novelist. Among his best-known novels are revisions of older classics. He was mainly influenced by classics such as ''The Tale of the Heike'', ''Tale of Genji'', ''Water Margin'' and ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'', m ...
Prize for New Writers: ''Japanese Entrance Exams for Earnest Young Men and other stories'' (short story collection)
* 1989 - Nominee for Naoki Prize
The Naoki Prize, officially , is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the ''Bungeishunjū'' magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo. Sponsored by the Society for the ...
: (novel)
* 1990 - Nominee for Naoki Prize: (novel)
* 1992 - Nominee for Naoki Prize: (novel)
See also
* Japanese detective fiction
, is a popular genre of Japanese literature.
History
Name
When Western detective fiction spread to Japan, it created a new genre called detective fiction () in Japanese literature. After World War II the genre was renamed deductive reasoning fi ...
* Japanese science fiction
Science fiction is an important genre of modern Japanese literature that has strongly influenced aspects of contemporary Japanese pop culture, including anime, manga, video games, tokusatsu, and Cinema of Japan, cinema.
History
Origins
Bot ...
* Japanese literature
Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature. Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or , a Chinese-Japanes ...
* List of Japanese authors
This is an alphabetical list of writers who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language.
Writers are listed by the native order of Japanese names, family name followed by given name to ensure consistency although some ...
References
External links
*http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~JF7Y-SMZ/ in Japanese
1947 births
Living people
Writers from Nagoya
Japanese writers
Japanese mystery writers
Japanese crime fiction writers
Japanese science fiction writers
Aichi University of Education alumni
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