, born 6 February 1956, is a Japanese novelist. His real name is Yasuhiro Okuizumi.
Biography
Okuizumi was born in Mikawa, Yamagata Prefecture, and attended high school in Saitama Prefecture, before studying Humanities at ICU in Tokyo. He completed a master's course at the same university, but dropped out midway through his doctoral course. In 1993, he won the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers for the novel, Novalis no InyÃ
Â, and the Akutagawa Prize for The Stones Cry Out the following year. The Stones Cry Out has been translated into a number of languages including English and French. Okuizumi started working at Kinki University in 1999, and continues to teach there.
Awards
Selected works
- Novalis no InyÃ
 (1993)
- The Stones Cry Out (Japanese title: Ishi no Raireki) (1993)
- Banal na GenshÃ
 (1994)
- Wagahai wa Neko de Aru Satsujin Jiken (1996)
- Plato Gakuen (1997)
- Grand Mystery (1998)
- ChÃ
Ârui Gakusha no Fantasy (2001)
- The New Journey to the Center of the Earth (2002âÂÂ2003)
- Modaru na JishÃ
 (2005)
- Shinki: Gunkan "Kashihara" Satsujin Jiken (2009)
- Shuman no yubi (2010)
- Kuwagata KÃ
Âichi JunkyÃ
Âju no sutairisshu na seikatsu (2011)
- Chi no tori ten no gyogun (2011å¹´9æÂ å¹»æÂ¯æÂ¸æÂ¿)
- Kiiroi mizugi no nazo: kuwagata kÃ
Âichi junkyÃ
Âju no sutairisshu na seikatsu 2 (2012)
- ChÃ
«ju ongakushÃ
« (2012)
- Mefisutoferesu no teiri: Jigoku sheikusupia sanbusaku (2013)
- TÃ
ÂkyÃ
 jijoden (2014)
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