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Occupation
  
Writer

Notable works
  
Haruchika series

Language
  
Japanese

Name
  
Sei Hatsuno

Period
  
2002–present

Role
  
Writer

Genre
  

Notable awards
  
Yokomizo Seishi Mystery Prize (2002)

Sei Hatsuno (初野晴, Hatsuno Sei, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of mystery and thriller. He is a member of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan.

When he was at Hosei University, he was moved and influenced by honkaku (orthodox) mystery novels such as The Decagon House Murders, written by Yukito Ayatsuji, and Soji Shimada's works and he started writing.

He began his career as writer when he won the Yokomizo Seishi Mystery Prize, an annual Japanese literary prize for unpublished mystery novels, in 2002 for the novel Mizu no Tokei (Water Clock). One of the selection committee members of the year was Yukito Ayatsuji.

He is an avid fan of mystery novels of Seishi Yokomizo and Jeffrey Archer.

Awards and nominations

  • 2002 – Yokomizo Seishi Mystery Prize: Mizu no Tokei (Water Clock)
  • 2008 – Nominee for Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Short Story: "Taishutsu Gēmu" ("Exit Game") (The third short story of Haruchika series)
  • 2013 – Nominee for Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel or Linked Short Stories: Sennen Jurietto (One Thousand Years Juliet) (The fourth book of Haruchika series)
  • References

    Sei Hatsuno Wikipedia


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