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Occupation
  
Writer

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Taku Ashibe


Period
  
1990–present

Language
  
Japanese

Books
  
Murder in the Red Chamber


Born
  
21 May 1958 (age 66) Osaka, Japan (
1958-05-21
)

Genre
  
Whodunit, locked room mystery, detective fiction, mystery fiction, thriller, horror

Literary movement
  
The new traditionalist movement

Notable awards
  
Ayukawa Tetsuya Award (1990)

Similar People
  
Arisu Arisugawa, Yukito Ayatsuji, Yasumi Kobayashi, Soji Shimada, Hideaki Sena

Taku Ashibe (芦辺 拓, Ashibe Taku, born 21 May 1958) is a Japanese mystery writer. He is a member of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing.

Contents

Works in English translation

Novel
  • Murder in the Red Chamber (original title: Kōrōmu no Satsujin), trans. Tyran C. Grillo (Kurodahan Press, 2012)
    • Short story
  • "The Horror in the Kabuki Theatre" (original title: "Gohei Gekijō: Kabuki no Kuni Cthulhu Taiji"), trans. Sheryl Hogg (Lairs of the Hidden Gods 2: Inverted Kingdom, Kurodahan Press, 2005)

    • Awards and nominations

  • 1990 – Ayukawa Tetsuya Award for New Mystery Writers: Satsujin Kigeki no Jūsan-nin (Thirteen in a Murder Comedy)
  • 2002 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Guran Ginyōru Jō (The Castle of Grand Guignol)
  • 2005 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Murder in the Red Chamber
  • 2009 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Saiban'in Hōtei (The Lay Judge Court)
  • 2011 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Kisōkyū Satsujin Jiken
  • 2013 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Suchīmu Opera (Steam Opera)

    • References

    Taku Ashibe Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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