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Full Name
  
平野啓一郎（小説家）

Spouse
  
Haruka Hirano (m. 2008)

Role
  
Novelist


Name
  
Keiichiro Hirano

Website
  
k-hirano.com

Education
  
Kyoto University

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Born
  
22 June 1975 (age 48) (
1975-06-22
)
Gamagori, Aichi prefecture, Japan

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Keiichirō Hirano (平野 啓一郎, Hirano Keiichirō, born June 22, 1975) is a Japanese novelist.

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Hirano was born in Gamagori, Aichi prefecture, Japan. He published his first novel (Nisshoku, 日蝕) in 1998 and won the Akutagawa Prize the next year as one of the youngest winners ever (at 23 years of age). He graduated from the Law Department of Kyoto University in 1999. In 2005 he was nominated as a cultural ambassador and spent a year in France.

Novels

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  • L'Eclipse (日蝕)
  • Conte de la première lune (一月物語)
  • The Only Form of Love (かたちだけの愛 [単行本]) 2008
  • Dawn (ドーン (講談社文庫) [文庫]) 2009
  • Other Works, Essays, Dialogues, etc.

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    His short story "Clear Water" (Shimizu, 清水), translated by Anthony Chambers, appears in Modern Japanese Literature, Volume 2 (Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 542–549.

    Awards

  • 120th (1998) Akutagawa Prize
  • 18th (2000) Kyoto Culture Prize
  • 59th (2008) Education, Science and Technology Minister’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Writers, for Dam Break
  • 19th (2009) Prix Deux Magots Bunkamura, for Dawn

    • Others

  • ウェブ人間論

    • References

    Keiichiro Hirano Wikipedia
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