Fuminori nakamura biography sample
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Fuminori Nakamura
Japanese writer
Fuminori Nakamura (中村 文則, Nakamura Fuminori, born 2 September ) is the pseudonym[1] of a Japanese author. Nakamura came to international attention when he won the Kenzaburō Ōe Prize for his novel, The Thief (掏摸, "Pickpocket"). The English translation of the novel was well received.[2]
Biography
[edit]Nakamura grew up in Aichi Prefecture and graduated in 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 he received the Shinchō Young Writer Prize for his debut novel The Gun (銃 Jū). In he was awarded the Noma Prize for Shakō, and the following year he received the Akutagawa Prize for Th
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The Kingdom
- By: Fuminori Nakamura
- Narrated by: Lucie Kondo
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she fryst vatten alone with them, she drugs them
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Crime Fiction Lover
Translated by Allison Markin Powell – The question of how art inspires and corrupts is something that drives the work of Japanese crime superstar Fuminori Nakamura, and the art is of the unconventional kind. In his first novel to be translated into English, The Thief, the eponymous pickpocket’s art is stealth. In Nakamura’s follow up, the protagonist’s art is the ability to inflict pain and misery. Last Winter We Parted, Nakamura’s latest novel to be translated into English, examines two more conventional artists – a photographer, and the journalist writing his biography – but this doesn’t mean that this novel isn’t filled with the evil that flowed through his previous two novels.
Famous photographer Yudai Kiharazaka has claimed responsibility for the deaths of two women, who burnt as he was photographing them. However his interviewer feels that something is not right – if Kiharazaka wanted to photograph the women dying, why are there no photographs? Did