Yoichi Funado

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Nationality Japanese Role Writer Name Yoichi Funado		Period 1979-2015 Alma mater Waseda University Education Waseda University
Born Kenji Harada February 8, 1944 Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan ( 1944-02-08 ) Genre Adventure fiction, spy fiction, hardboiled, thriller, historical fiction Notable works May in the Valley of the Rainbow Notable awards Mystery Writers of Japan Award (1989) Naoki Prize (2000) Died April 22, 2015, Suginami, Tokyo City, Tokyo, Japan Books May in the Valley of the Rainbow

Kenji Harada (原田建司, Harada Kenji, February 8, 1944 – April 22, 2015) better known by his pseudonym Yoichi Funado (船戸与一, Funado Yoichi) was a Japanese writer of adventure fiction.

Biography

Funado was born as Kenji Harada on February 8, 1944. During his student days, he traveled to Alaska. He graduated from Waseda University. Funado made his debut as an adventure novel writer in 1979. After writing some prize-winning adventure novels, in 2000 he won the Naoki Prize for his novel May in the Valley of the Rainbow. In February 2015, he published the last volume of his nine-volume novel series on the history of Manchukuo.

Funado died of thymic cancer on April 22, 2015 in Suginami, Tokyo.

Works in English translation

May in the Valley of the Rainbow (original title: Niji no Tani no Gogatsu), trans. Eve Nyren (Vertical, 2006)

Awards

Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize

1985 - Yamaneko no Natsu (Summer of the Wildcat)

1988 - Takeki Hakobune

1989 - Densetsu Naki Chi

1992 - Suna no Kuronikuru (Sand Chronicle)

1996 - Ezochi Bekken

2004 - Yume wa Arechi o

Other awards

1985 - Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers: Yamaneko no Natsu (Summer of the Wildcat)

1988 - The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1988): Densetsu Naki Chi

1989 - Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel: Densetsu Naki Chi

1992 - Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize: Suna no Kuronikuru (Sand Chronicle)

1993 - The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1993): Suna no Kuronikuru (Sand Chronicle)

2000 - Naoki Prize: May in the Valley of the Rainbow

2014 - Japan Mystery Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement

Main works

Higōhōin (1979)

Chi to Yume (1982)

Yamaneko no Natsu (lit. Summer of the Wildcat) (1984)

Takeki Hakobune (1987)

Densetsu Naki Chi (1988)

Midori no Soko no Soko (1989)

Suna no Kuronikuru (lit. Sand Chronicle) (1991)

Ezochi Bekken (1995)

Niji no Tani no Gogatsu (2000) (May in the Valley of the Rainbow. Vertical. 2006) ISBN 978-1-93223-428-2

Yume wa Arechi o (2003)

Kahan ni Shirube Naku (lit. No Sign on the Riverside) (2006)

Manshukoku Engi (2007-2015) (nine volumes)

References

Yoichi Funado Wikipedia

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Biography

Works in English translation

Awards

Main works

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