Fuminori Nakamura Related Posts
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October 20, 2023
Earlier this month Kodansha, one of Japan’s largest and most prestigious publishers, released The Line, Retsu, a provocative new novel by the award-winning Fuminori Nakamura… Read more » -
March 4, 2022
‘From the first sentence—“Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life”—Nakamura plays tricks on the reader, the narrator, and even the notion of… Read more » -
September 10, 2021
The mysterious and magical effect of cats is widely celebrated. Cats entertain, evoke stress-reducing emotional responses, constantly and often counter-intuitively amuse, and cats – of… Read more » -
June 3, 2021
According to The Guinness Book of Records, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece sold 320,866,000 units worldwide between its launch in 1997 and 2015 when it was first listed by Guinness as a record breaking series. One Piece, which is an on-going series that still tops the… Read more » -
May 18, 2021
Earlier this month Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, a Japanese publisher linked to one of Japan’s most prestigious national newspapers, launched a tanko-bon, hardback, edition of The Card Shark (Kaado-shi), by… Read more » -
November 26, 2020
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970), one of Japan’s most renowned authors, Shinchosha, a leading Japanese publisher, is re-issuing… Read more » -
July 15, 2020There is some debate amongst academics about which work was the very first published newspaper novel, Shimbun Shosetsu, in Japan. Several are often mentioned, but some consider Torioi Omatsu Kaijo Shinwa, The New Martine Tales of Bird-Chasing Omatsu, by Hikosaku Kubota (1846-1898), published between 1877, and… Read more »
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May 21, 2020
The Red Circle author Fuminori Nakamura, who is known for penning fast-paced narratives that hypnotically blend psychological suspense with literary fiction, has a new paperback… Read more » -
April 21, 2020
Last week Gentosha, a Japanese publisher based in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya district best known for its literary magazines and manga, published a tanko-bon, hardback, edition… Read more » -
December 30, 2019The Thief, first published in Japanese in 2009 and subsequently in English in 2012, translated by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates, has been ranked amongst the… Read more »
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October 18, 2019
Earlier this month, the Asahi Shimbun started publishing daily installments of Fuminori Nakamura’s latest novel, The Card Shark (Kaado-shi), in its morning edition and its… Read more » -
August 13, 2019Last month Kawade Shobo Shinsha, a major Japanese publisher founded in 1886 and publisher of the important Japanese quarterly literary journal Bungei, published the first… Read more »
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July 19, 2019
Is it necessary, really, to learn how to read a film?’ asks the seminal book on film studies, How To Read a Film, in the… Read more » -
July 1, 2019
The recently launched series, Red Circle Minis, are now on sale at two important bookshops in Vienna, one located at Vienna University, the oldest university in… Read more » -
October 8, 2018
Fuminori Nakamura, who is known for penning fast-paced narratives that hypnotically blend psychological suspense with literary fiction, has a new novel out in Japan, a… Read more » -
June 12, 2018The much anticipated, Cult X, Fuminori Nakamura’s seventh novel in English translation published last month, is making a major impact internationally after causing a sensation… Read more »
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March 22, 2018
The award-winning Red Circle author, Fuminori Nakamura’s international profile and reputation continues to grow as his works appears in translation in more languages. He is… Read more » -
February 23, 2018
Images of human-like dolls or doll-like humans are widely associated with Japan. The most famous of all must be the Geisha, which has captivated people… Read more » -
January 29, 2018
In January the first of three major Japanese feature films to be launched in 2018, all based on books by the award-winning Red Circle author… Read more » -
January 5, 2018
The Red Circle author Fuminori Nakamura, who is known for penning fast-paced narratives hypnotically blending psychological suspense with literary fiction, is hypnotising booksellers and readers… Read more »
