Kazushi Hosaka

Kazushi Hosaka (保坂 和志, Hosaka Kazushi, born 15 October 1956) is a Japanese writer. He has won the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Akutagawa Prize, and the Tanizaki Prize.

Biography

Hosaka was born in Yamanashi prefecture and received his undergraduate education at Waseda University with a major in political science and economics. After graduating he worked for Seibu Culture Centers, holding popular educational workshops on philosophy. During this period (1990) he published his first book, Plainsong. He left Seibu in 1993 to devote his efforts to writing full-time, with the assistance of fellow writer Nobuo Kojima.

Hosaka writes about ordinary people in ordinary life situations. His work has been compared with the movies of noted director Yasujirō Ozu. A common theme in his writing is the presence of a cat in the lives of his characters.

Recognition
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gollark: Consider the difficulty of designing a working car versus trying to patch together a bad car after it's done while it's driving and incapable of stopping without exploding.
gollark: And fix them in the design.
gollark: It's not necessarily harder if you can think of the problems when designing it.
gollark: If you have general AI good enough to be running the structure in the first place, it can just be on the design team.

References
  1. 野間文芸新人賞 過去受賞作 [Noma Literary New Face Prize Past Winning Works] (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  2. 芥川賞受賞者一覧 [List of Akutagawa Prize Recipients] (in Japanese). 日本文学振興会. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  3. 谷崎潤一郎賞受賞作品一覧 [List of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki Prize Winners] (in Japanese). Chuokoron-Shinsha. Retrieved September 18, 2018.


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