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
gollark: You're going to need very big groups to keep modern-or-better technology in production, though.
gollark: Fires work, but aren't very good compared to electric lighting.
gollark: > I explained medicine...You did not explain how you're meant to produce medicine without much/any technology.> communication + human interaction I also explained with internet 2That is just a fibre network. You need to produce hardware somehow.> lighting is also explained. Ever heard of a fire?Fires are inefficient and bad.
gollark: Shelter, medicine, communication, lighting, human social interaction, etc.
gollark: There are things other than those which matter? Also, subsistence farming is kind of no?

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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