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Alice Arisugawa

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Pen name
  
Alice Arisugawa

Language
  
Japanese

Occupation
  
Writer

Period
  
1989–present

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Born
  
April 26, 1959 (age 57) Osaka, Japan (
1959-04-26
)

Genre
  
Whodunit, closed circle mystery, mystery fiction, thriller, horror

Literary movement
  
The new traditionalist movement

Notable awards
  
Mystery Writers of Japan Award (2003), Honkaku Mystery Award (2008)

Similar
  
Yukito Ayatsuji, Rintaro Norizuki, Yutaka Maya, Soji Shimada, Natsuhiko Kyogoku

Masahide Uehara (上原 正英, Uehara Masahide, born April 26, 1959), mainly known by his pseudonym Alice Arisugawa (有栖川有栖, Arisugawa Arisu), is a Japanese mystery writer. He is one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing and was the first president of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan from 2000 to 2005.

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Works in English translation

  • The Moai Island Puzzle (original title: Kotō Pazuru), trans. Ho-Ling Wong (Locked Room International, 2016)

    • Awards and nominations

  • 1996 – Nominee for Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Short Story: "Chocho ga Habataku"
  • 2003 – Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel: Mare Tetsudo no Nazo (The Malayan Railway Mystery)
  • 2003 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Mare Tetsudo no Nazo (The Malayan Railway Mystery)
  • 2004 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Suisu-dokei no Nazo (The Swiss Watch Mystery)
  • 2007 – The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (2007 Honkaku Mystery Best 10): Ran'a no Shima
  • 2008 – Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Jookoku no Shiro (The Castle of the Queendom)
  • 2008 – The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (2008 Honkaku Mystery Best 10): Jookoku no Shiro (The Castle of the Queendom)

    • References

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