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Jun 25, 2024 · Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA. Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. (presently DENSO).
The Devotion of Suspect X (容疑者Xの献身, Yōgisha Ekkusu no Kenshin) is a 2005 novel by Keigo Higashino, the first in his Detective Galileo series and is his most acclaimed work thus far. The novel won him numerous awards, including the 134th Naoki Prize, which is a highly regarded award in Japan.
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Higashino was born in the Ikuno-ku ward of the city of Osaka in Osaka Prefecture. The logographicletters that make up the family name were initially read as "Tono", but Keigo's father changed the reading to "Higashino". Growing up in a working class area, Higashino's childhood was challenging because of the lower class to which his family belonged....
Higashino started writing while in high school and university, showing his manuscripts to friends. In 1981, he began working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. (presently DENSO), and married a high school teacher. He continued to write in the evenings and on weekends, submitting unpublished mystery novels for consideration for the annual Edogawa Ra...
Higashino admitted in 2015 that his content and style had changed from his earlier writings, in which he treated motivation as the most important element.In a 2011 interview, he stated that he wants his "readers to be continually surprised by my ideas." In addition to mystery novels, Higashino writes essays and story books for children. His style o...
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1. My Favourite Mystery: Kuroi gashū (黒い画集, The Black Art Book) by Seichō Matsumoto (Mystery Writers of Japan, Inc.)
Japanese Mystery Fiction Guide Rankings
1. 2006 – The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2006): The Devotion of Suspect X 2. 2010 – The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2010): Shinzanmono(The Newcomer) 3. 2012 – Ranked as the No. 13 novel on the Top 100 Japanese Mystery Novels of All Time: The Devotion of Suspect X 4. 2012 – Ranked as the No. 18 novel on the Top 100 Japanese Mystery Novels of All Time: Journey under the Midnight Sun 5. 2018 – Ranked as No. 1 novel on the W...
By 2018 Higashino had published 66 novels, 20 short story collections, and one picture book. In all, there were 715 works in 8 languages by Higashino worldwide in 2020, excluding 20 which were about him.
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Oct 9, 2015 · Journey Under the Midnight Sun is a dark, convoluted tale, marked by Higashino’s characteristic sleight of hand. The novel opens in Osaka in the early 1970s – Homicide Detective Junzo Sasagaki is taking a walk on his day off when he sees a group of police cars converge on an abandoned building.
