Keiichiro Hirano
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Hirano was born in Gamagori, Aichi prefecture, Japan. He published his first novel (Nisshoku, Script error: No such module "Lang".) in 1998 and won the Akutagawa Prize the next year as one of the youngest winners ever (at 23 years of age). He graduated from the Law Department of Kyoto University in 1999. In 2005 he was nominated as a cultural ambassador and spent a year in France.
Novels
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- The Only Form of Love (Script error: No such module "Lang".) 2008
- Dawn (Script error: No such module "Lang".) 2009
- A Man (Script error: No such module "Lang".) 2018
- Other Works, Essays, Dialogues, etc.
His short story "Clear Water" (Shimizu, Script error: No such module "Lang".), translated by Anthony Chambers, appears in Modern Japanese Literature, Volume 2 (Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 542–549.
Awards
- 120th (1998) Akutagawa Prize
- 18th (2000) Kyoto Culture Prize
- 59th (2008) Education, Science and Technology Minister’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Writers, for Dam Break
- 19th (2009) Prix Deux Magots Bunkamura, for Dawn