Keizo Hino

Keizo Hino (日野 啓三, Hino Keizō, June 14, 1929 – October 14, 2002) was a Japanese author.

He won the 1974 Akutagawa Prize for Ano yūhi (The Evening Sun) and the 1986 Tanizaki Prize for Sakyu ga ugoku yo ni (砂丘が動くように). Born in Tokyo, he accompanied his parents to Korea, when the country was still under Japanese colonial rule. After the war, he returned to Japan, graduating from the University of Tokyo and joining the staff of the Yomiuri Shimbun, a leading Japanese newspaper, in 1952. He served as a foreign correspondent in South Korea and Vietnam before becoming a novelist. Though he is often described as an environmentalist author, the focus of much of his fiction is the urban physical environment. Hino's works are striking for being simultaneously autobiographical and surrealistic. His novel Yume no Shima has been translated into English as Isle of Dreams, and German as Trauminsel; one short story, Bokushikan, has been translated into English as The Rectory; another short story, Hashigo no tatsu machi 梯の立つ街, has been translated as "Jacob's Tokyo Ladder."

Selected works

• Seinaru kanata e : waga tamashii no henreki, Kyoto : PHP Kenkyūjo, 1981.
• Hōyō, Tokyo : Shueisha, 1982.
• Tenmado no aru garēji, Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1982.
• Kagaku no saizensen, Tokyo : Gakuseisha, 1982.
• Seikazoku, Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1983.
• Nazukerarenu mono no kishibe nite, Tokyo : Shuppan Shinsha, 1984.
• Yume no shima (夢の島), Tokyo : Kodansha, 1985. Translated as Isle of Dreams by Charles de Wolf: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010.
• Sakyū ga ugoku yōni (砂丘が動くように), Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1986.
• Sō (葬), Tōkyō : Sakuhinsha, 1987.
• Ribingu zero (リビング・ゼロ), Tokyo : Shueisha, 1987.
• Kyō mo yume miru monotachi wa (きょうも夢みる者たちは－), Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1988.
• Doko de mo nai doko ka (どこでもないどこか), Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1990.
• Dangai no toshi (断崖の年), Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1992.
• Taifū no me (台風の眼), Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1993.