- Tomoyuki Hoshino
Tomoyuki Hoshino is a Japanese writer. He was born in
Los Angeles in 1965 and his family returned to Japan before he was three years old. He attendedWaseda University and worked for a while as a journalist after graduating in 1988. He spent the better part of the years 1990-5 living inMexico . He returned to Japan and worked for a while translating from Spanish to Japanese. He published his firstnovel The Last Gasp in 1997, and it was awarded theBungei Prize . He won the Mishima Prize for his second novel The Mermaid Sings Wake Up, which was published in 2000. He won the Noma Bungei award for Fantasista in 2003. Other works include The Poisoned Singles Hot Springs (2002), Naburiai (2003), Lonely Hearts Killer (2004), Alkaloid Lovers (2005), The Worussian-Japanese Tragedy (2006), The Story of Rainbow and Chloe (2006), and the collection We Kittens (2006). His short story "Sand Planet" was nominated for theAkutagawa Prize for 2002 * [http://homepage1.nifty.com/naokiaward/akutagawa/ichiran121-140.htm] . He has published many short story andessay s, bothfiction andnon-fiction . He also writesguest commentaries fornewspapers andjournal s on sports (especially soccer),Latin America ,politic s,nationalism , and theart s. His short story "Chino" has been translated into English by Lucy Fraser and is available online via the Japanese Fiction Project (Emerging Writers in Translation), and his novel Lonely Hearts Killer has been translated into English by Adrienne Hurley and is soon to bepublish ed. He travels frequently and has participated in writers' caravans with authors fromTaiwan ,India , and elsewhere. In 2006, his critique ofIchiro Suzuki 's remarks at theWorld Baseball Classic were considered controversial by some, and so have some of his other writings related toJapanese nationalism , theemperor , sexuality,bullying , andJapanese society . Also in 2006, the literary journal Bungei dedicated a special issue to Hoshino and his work. He teachescreative writing at Waseda, hisalma mater . In January of 2007, he was nominated again for theAkutagawa Prize , this time for Shokubutsu shindanshitsu.* [http://www.bunshun.co.jp/award/akutagawa/index.htm]Sources
* [http://www.j-lit.or.jp/e/programs/featured_stories/chino.html "Chino" (short story)]
* [http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2006/february/021306asia_symposium.html New Nationalisms (University of Iowa symposium)]External links
* http://www.hoshinot.jp Official website
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