Fuminori Nakamura Related Posts
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January 4, 2018
According to Fuminori Nakamura, one of the most exciting new generation of Japanese authors, his only escape when he was young was reading, and the one book that really resonated for him, was No Longer Human (Ningen shikkaku), by Osamu Dazai (1909-1948). Many other leading Japanese authors say… Read more » -
January 1, 2018Japan’s two most prestigious literary prizes amongst the more than 500 prizes that are awarded each year in Japan for literature are probably the Akutagawa and the Naoki prizes. Both were set up in 1935, by Kan Kikuchi (1888-1948), when he was editor of Bungeishinju,… Read more »
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January 1, 2018There are Japanese literary prizes named after both of Japan’s two winners of Nobel prizes in Literature. The Kawabata Yasunari Prize, was founded in 1973 using the Nobel Prize money. It is awarded once a year for the best work of short fiction. The winner receives 1 million… Read more »
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July 30, 2017
In its review of Red Circle author Fuminori Nakamura’s Akutagawa-winning book, The Boy in the Earth, The Japan Times compares Nakamura to the Nobel Prize-winning author… Read more » -
May 1, 2017The award-winning novel The Boy in the Earth, by Fuminori Nakamura, recently published in English, has been reviewed in The Wall Street Journal by the author… Read more »
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April 21, 2017
Fuminori Nakamura, the multi-award winning Japanese crime writer, is featured in Literary Hub. In the article Nakamura writes about his childhood and the impact it… Read more »
