Taku Ashibe

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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 65) 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.

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

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Works in English translation

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