Yoichi Funado
Kenji Harada, known by his pen name Yoichi Funado, 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 wrote approximately 30 stories for the manga series Golgo 13, three of which he later novelized in 2011.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, trans. Eve Nyren
Awards
- Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize
- * 1985 - Yamaneko no Natsu
- * 1988 - Takeki Hakobune
- * 1989 - Densetsu Naki Chi
- * 1992 - Suna no Kuronikuru
- * 1996 - Ezochi Bekken
- * 2004 - Yume wa Arechi o
- Other awards
- * 1985 - Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers: Yamaneko no Natsu
- * 1988 - The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year : Densetsu Naki Chi
- * 1989 - Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel: Densetsu Naki Chi
- * 1992 - Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize: Suna no Kuronikuru
- * 1993 - The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year : Suna no Kuronikuru
- * 2000 - Naoki Prize: May in the Valley of the Rainbow
- * 2014 - Japan Mystery Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement
Main works
Higōhōin Chi to Yume Yamaneko no Natsu Takeki Hakobune Densetsu Naki Chi Midori no Soko no Soko Suna no Kuronikuru Ezochi Bekken Niji no Tani no Gogatsu Yume wa Arechi o Kahan ni Shirube Naku- ''Manshukoku Engi''