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Higashino was born in the Ikuno-ku ward of the city of Osaka in Osaka Prefecture. The logographic letters that make up the family name were initially read as "Tono", but Keigo's father changed the reading to "Higashino".
Dec 13, 2021 · I spoke with two of Higashino’s English-language translators, Giles Murray and Alexander O. Smith, about how the world in Higashino’s crime novels reflect the real Tokyo—how it feels, how it operates, and how it’s changing.
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- February 4, 1958
- The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
- The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino, Sam Bett (Translator)
- Malice (Detective Kaga, #1) by Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith (Translator)
- Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo, #2) by Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith (Translator)
Keigo Higashino is a bestselling author in Japan with over three dozen bestsellers, hundreds of millions of copies of his books sold worldwide, and nearly twenty films and television series based on his work. He won the Naoki Prize for his first novel featuring Detective Galileo. He lives in Tokyo.
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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 He continued to write in the evenings and on weekends, submitting unpublished mystery novels for consideration for the annual Edogawa Ram...
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...
Essay
1. My Favourite Mystery: Kuroi gashū (黒い画集, The Black Art Book) by Seichō Matsumoto (Mystery Writers of Japan, Inc.)
Awards
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...
Some of his novels have been made into TV drama series and films: Japanese films 1. Naoko (1999, Original Title: Himitsu, 1998) 2. g@me. (2003, Original Title: Gēmu no Na wa Yūkai, 2002) 3. Lakeside Murder Case (2004, Original Title: Lakeside, 2002) 4. Henshin(2005) 5. Tegami(2006) 6. Suspect X(2008) 7. The Hovering Blade (2009, Original Title: Sam...
In Spanish: Keigo Higashino para niños 1. Japanese detective fiction 2. Mystery Writers of Japan 3. Edogawa Rampo Prize 4. Naoki Prize 5. Honkaku Mystery Award
Keigo Higashino is a Japanese novelist popularly known for his mystery novels. He was born on February 4th, 1958 in Osaka, Japan. Higashino graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Osaka Prefecture University.
Oct 9, 2015 · Translated by Alexander O Smith — It’s no exaggeration to say that Keigo Higashino is a phenomenon in Japan. Popular and multi-award winning, he’s been putting out books steadily for the past 30 years, which means there’s a rich vein of potential translations to mine.
