Issui Ogawa
Issui Ogawa is a science fiction writer of more than a dozen novels. His stories are often sociological in nature dealing with issues like disaster and democracy.
Awards
- 2004: Seiun Award Best Japanese Novel of the Year for
- 2006: Seiun Award Best Japanese Short Story of the Year for "Tadayotta Otoko"
- 2011: Seiun Award Best Japanese Short Story of the Year for "Arisuma ō no aishita mamono"
- 2014: Seiun Award Best Japanese Novel of the Year for
- 2019: Nihon SF Taisho Award for
- 2020: Seiun Award Best Japanese Novel of the Year for
Personal life
Issui Ogawa was born in Gifu Prefecture, and currently resides in Aichi Prefecture. He is married and has two children.English translation
- Novels
- * The Lord of the Sands of Time, translation of
- * The Next Continent, translation of
- Short stories
- * "Old Vohl's Planet" translation by Jim Hubbert in Speculative Japan 2: The Old Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
- * "Golden Bread"
- * "To the Blue Star"