Keiichiro Hirano
Keiichirō Hirano is a Japanese novelist.
Hirano was born in Gamagori, Aichi prefecture, Japan. He published his first novel in 1998 and won the Akutagawa Prize the next year as one of the youngest winners ever. He graduated from the Law Department of Kyoto University in 1999. In 2005 he was nominated as a cultural ambassador and spent a year in France.
Novels
L'Eclipse Conte de la première lune The Only Form of Love 2008Dawn 2009*
His short story "Clear Water", translated by Anthony Chambers, appears in Modern Japanese Literature, Volume 2, pp. 542–549.
Awards
- 120th Akutagawa Prize
- 18th Kyoto Culture Prize
- 59th Education, Science and Technology Minister’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Writers, for Dam Break
- 19th Prix Deux Magots Bunkamura, for Dawn