Fuminori Nakamura


Fuminori Nakamura is the pseudonym of a Japanese author. Nakamura came to international attention when he won the 2010 Kenzaburō Ōe Prize for his novel, The Thief. The English translation of the novel was well received.
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Biography

Nakamura grew up in Aichi Prefecture and graduated in 2000 with a degree in public administration from Fukushima University. He now lives in Tokyo.
Nakamura has already published two dozen books in Japan. His works have been translated into numerous languages and have been published in the United States, Great Britain, China, France and Spain, among others. Nakamura cites Franz Kafka and Fyodor Dostoyevsky as literary influences.
In 2002 he received the Shinchō Young Writer Prize for his debut novel The Gun. In 2004 he was awarded the Noma Prize for Shakō, and the following year he received the Akutagawa Prize for The Boy in the Earth. In 2010 Nakamura received the Kenzaburō Ōe Prize for the novel The Thief.
In 2018, The Gun was adapted as a feature film, screenwritten and directed by Masaharu Take.
The Wall Street Journal called The Thief a "chilling philosophical thriller" and included it in its Best Fiction of 2012, while Time Out Chicago called the novel a "breath of fresh air." The novel was also a finalist for the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Best Mystery/Thriller category.
The book, though marketed as crime fiction, was cited by some reviewers as being a work of literary fiction.

Novels

  • Jū, 2003
  • *The Gun, trans. Allison Markin Powell
  • Shakō, 2004
  • Akui no Shuki, 2005
  • Tsuchi no naka no kodomo, 2005
  • *The Boy in the Earth, trans. Allison Markin Powell
  • Saigo no Inochi, 2007
  • Nani mo ka mo Yūutsuna Yoru ni, 2009
  • Suri, 2009
  • *The Thief, trans. Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates
  • Aku to Kamen no Rūru, 2010
  • *Evil and the Mask, trans. Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates
  • Ōkoku, 2011
  • *The Kingdom, trans. Kalau Almony
  • Meikyū, 2012
  • Kyonen no Fuyu, Kimi to Wakare, 2013
  • *Last Winter, We Parted, trans. Allison Markin Powell
  • Kyōdan X, 2014
  • *Cult X, trans. Kalau Almony
  • Anata ga Kieta Yoru ni, 2015
  • Watashi no Shōmetsu, 2016
  • *My Annihilation, trans. Sam Bett
  • Aaru Teikoku, 2017
  • Sono-saki no michi ni kieru, 2018
  • *The Rope Artist, trans. Sam Bett
  • Kādo-shi, 2021
  • Retsu, 2023

Short story collections

  • Tsuchi no Naka no Kodomo, 2005
  • *Tsuchi no Naka no Kodomo, 2005
  • *Kumo no Koe, 2004
  • Sekai no Hate, 2009
  • *Tsuki no Shita no Kodomo, 2008
  • *Gomi Yashiki, 2008
  • *Sensō-Biyori, 2006
  • *Yoru no Zawameki, 2007
  • *Sekai no Hate, 2006
  • Madoi no Mori: 50 Stories, 2012
  • A, 2014

Awards and nominations

Japanese Awards
U.S. Awards