Fuminori Nakamura

• Name — Fuminori Nakamura • Awards — Akutagawa Prize Ōe Kenzaburō Prize • Born — 2 September 1977 • Occupation — Novelist • Period — 2002–present • Notable Works — The Thief • Website — nakamurafuminori.jp

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 (銃 Jū). 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 (土の中の子供 Tsuchi no naka no kodomo). In 2010 Nakamura received the Kenzaburō Ōe Prize for the novel The Thief (掏摸 Suri). 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.

• Jū, 2003 • The Gun, trans. Allison Markin Powell (Soho Press, 2016) • Shakō [Shield Me from the Light], 2004 • Akui no Shuki [A Note of Malice], 2005 • Tsuchi no naka no kodomo, 2005 • The Boy in the Earth, trans. Allison Markin Powell (Soho Crime, 2017) • Saigo no Inochi [Final Life], 2007 • Nani mo ka mo Yūutsuna Yoru ni [In the Night I Feel Everything Melancholy], 2009 • Suri, 2009 • The Thief, trans. Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates (Soho Crime, 2012) • Aku to Kamen no Rūru, 2010 • Evil and the Mask, trans. Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates (Soho Crime, 2013) • Ōkoku, 2011 • The Kingdom, trans. Kalau Almony (Soho Press, 2016) • Meikyū [The Labyrinth], 2012 • Kyonen no Fuyu, Kimi to Wakare, 2013 • Last Winter, We Parted, trans. Allison Markin Powell (Soho Press, 2014) • Kyōdan X, 2014 • Cult X, trans. Kalau Almony (Soho Press, 2018) • Anata ga Kieta Yoru ni [On the Night You Disappeared], 2015 • Watashi no Shōmetsu, 2016 • My Annihilation, trans. Sam Bett (Soho Crime, 2022) • Aaru Teikoku [Empire R], 2017 • Sono-saki no michi ni kieru, 2018 • The Rope Artist, trans. Sam Bett (Soho Crime, 2023) • Kādo-shi [Card master], 2021 • Retsu, [The Line] 2023

• Tsuchi no Naka no Kodomo[Child in the Ground], 2005 • Tsuchi no Naka no Kodomo, 2005 • Kumo no Koe[The Voice of a Spider], 2004 • Sekai no Hate[The Edge of the World], 2009 • Tsuki no Shita no Kodomo[Child under the Moon], 2008 • Gomi Yashiki[The Garbage Room], 2008 • Sensō-Biyori[The Day worthy of the War], 2006 • Yoru no Zawameki[Noises in the Night], 2007 • Sekai no Hate, 2006 • Madoi no Mori: 50 Stories[The Woods of a Delusion: 50 Stories], 2012 • A, 2014