Koji Suzuki

is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring novels, which have been adapted into other formats, including films, manga, TV series, and video games. He has written several books on the subject of fatherhood. His hobbies include traveling, motorcycling, as well as sailing.

Bibliography

Some of the books listed here are published in the US by Vertical Inc., owned by Kodansha and Dai Nippon Printing.

Ring series

• Ring trilogy and extended series
  • Ring (Ringu) (1991)
  • Spiral (Rasen) (1995)
  • Loop (Rupu) (1998)
  • Birthday (1999) (Short story collection)
    • "Coffin in the Sky" [details what happened to Mai Takano in Spiral]
    • "Lemon Heart" [prequel to Ring]
    • "Happy Birthday" [a direct epilogue to Loop]
  • S (2012)
  • Tide (2013)

Standalone novels

• Paradise (Rakuen) (1990)
• The Shining Sea (Hikari sasu umi) (1993)
  • republished – The Shining Sea (2022 Vertical Publishing) – Template:ISBN
• Promenade of the Gods (Kamigami no Promenade) (2003)
• Edge (2008)
• Ubiquitous (2025)

Short story collections

• Death and the Flower (1995)
  • "Disposable Diapers and a Race Replica"
  • "Irregular Breathing"
  • "Key West"
  • "Beyond the Darkness"
  • "Embrace"
  • "Avidya"
• Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara) (1996) (includes an original framing story)
  • "Floating Water"
  • "Solitary Isle"
  • "The Hold"
  • "Dream Cruise"
  • "Adrift"
  • "Watercolors"
  • "Forest Under the Sea"

Short story

• "Drop" (2009) – Printed on three rolls of toilet paper in Japan in Japanese and in English in 2012.

Films adapted from his works

• Ring (Ringu, a.k.a. Ringu: Kanzenban) (1995)
• Ring (Ringu) (1998)
• Rasen (Spiral) (1998)
• The Ring Virus (1999)
• Ring 2 (Ringu 2) (1999)
• Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
• Dark Water (2002)
• The Ring (2002)
• Dark Water (2005)
• Rings (short film) (2005)
• The Ring Two (2005)
• Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)
• Masters of Horror (TV, episode 2.13 Dream Cruise) (2007)
• Sadako 3D (2012)
• Sadako 3D 2 (2013)
• Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
• Rings (2017)
• Sadako aka Sadako KOL (2019)
• Sadako DX (2022) DX Template:Webarchive is an acronym of sorts for digital transformation

Awards and nominations

Japanese awards

• 1990 Japan Fantasy Novel Award: Paradise
• 1996 Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers: Spiral
• 1996 Nominee for Naoki Prize: Dark Water
• 1996 Nominee for Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature: Dark Water
• 1998 Nominee for Japanese SF Award: Loop

U.S. award

• 2012 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel: Edge

International award

• 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement

External links

• Template:Trim/ Template:PAGENAMEBASE at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidata
• Template:Trim Koji Suzuki at the Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseTemplate:EditAtWikidata
• Koji Suzuki bibliography at FantasticFiction
• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• J'Lit | Authors : Koji Suzuki | Books from Japan Template:Webarchive Template:In lang