HINO KEIZO

Hino Keizo was a journalist and novelist from Tokyo. He grew up in Korea when it was still a colony of Japan, but returned to Japan to study and graduated from Tokyo University. He took a job with the Yomiuri newspaper and served as a correspondent in Korea and Vietnam, then began writing novels, winning the Akutagawa Ryunosuke Prize for Ano yuhi (The Evening Sun, 1974). He was awarded the Tanizaki Jun’ichiro Prize for Sakyu ga ugoku yo ni (As the Sand Dunes Move, 1986). He also translated works from Vietnamese into Japanese.