Issui Ogawa

Issui Ogawa (小川一水, Ogawa Issui, born 1975) 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.^[1]

Awards

2004: Seiun Award Best Japanese Novel of the Year for Dai Roku Tairiku (第六大陸)
2006: Seiun Award Best Japanese Short Story of the Year for "Tadayotta Otoko" (漂った男)
2011: Seiun Award Best Japanese Short Story of the Year for "Arisuma ō no aishita mamono" (アリスマ王の愛した魔物)
2014: Seiun Award Best Japanese Novel of the Year for Kororogi dake kara mokusei toroya e (コロロギ岳から木星トロヤへ)
2019: Nihon SF Taisho Award for Tenmei no shirube (天冥の標)
2020: Seiun Award Best Japanese Novel of the Year for Tenmei no shirube (天冥の標)

Personal life

Issui Ogawa was born in Gifu Prefecture, and currently resides in Aichi Prefecture. He is married and has two children. ^[2]

Bibliography

English translation

Novels
- The Lord of the Sands of Time (2009), translation of Toki Suna no Ō (時砂の王) (2007)
- The Next Continent (2010), translation of Dai roku tairiku (第六大陸) (2003)
Short stories
- "Old Vohl's Planet" (2003) translation by Jim Hubbert in Speculative Japan 2: The Old Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy (Kurodahan Press, 2011)^[3]
- "Golden Bread" (The Future is Japanese, Viz Media, Haikasoru, 2012)
- "To the Blue Star" (Speculative Japan 3, Kurodahan Press, 2012)^[4]

Notes

^ Japanese fiction project (archived from the original link)
^ "博物戦艦アンヴェイル2巻予告と、1巻の人物紹介について". 小川遊水池＠blog. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
^ "Speculative Japan 2 | Kurodahan Press". Archived from the original on 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
^ "Speculative Japan 3 | Kurodahan Press". Archived from the original on 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2013-11-23.

External links

小川遊水池 - Issui Ogawa's web site
@ogawaissui on Twitter
Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Issui Ogawa at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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[1] Japanese fiction project (archived from the original link)

[2] "博物戦艦アンヴェイル2巻予告と、1巻の人物紹介について". 小川遊水池＠blog. Retrieved 2022-09-25.

[3] "Speculative Japan 2 | Kurodahan Press". Archived from the original on 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2013-11-23.

[4] "Speculative Japan 3 | Kurodahan Press". Archived from the original on 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2013-11-23.

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