Edogawa Ranpo Award
1 appearances
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Edition 19 (1973) award
Hajime Komine
こみね はじめ
Komine Hajime
Pen Names:
Hirooka Sumio（birth name）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1921-03-24 （Kobe, Hyogo, Japan）
- Died
- 1994-05-22 age 73
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, newspaper journalist
- Active Years
- 1948-1987
- Influenced
- Keigo Higashino, Okajima Nibito (pen name)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Himeji Commercial High School | — | — | — | — | Japan |
| Osaka University of Foreign Studies (now Osaka University) | Faculty of Foreign Studies | Spanish Department | — | — | Japan |
Himeji Commercial High School
Country:
Japan
Osaka University of Foreign Studies (now Osaka University)
Faculty of Foreign Studies
/ Spanish Department
Country:
Japan
Enrollment/graduation year unknown
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Edogawa Rampo Prize | Archimedes Does Not Get His Hands Dirty | — | Edogawa Rampo Prize Committee | winner |
Edogawa Rampo Prize
1973
Work:
Archimedes Does Not Get His Hands Dirty
Organization:
Edogawa Rampo Prize Committee
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Secret of the Hyakumantō
1948 juvenile detective fictionAn early juvenile adventure-detective collection; a compilation of short stories.
youth adventuredetective
Archimedes Does Not Get His Hands Dirty
1973 youth mystery novelA long novel focusing on high-school students, combining coming-of-age themes and mystery. Komine's representative work; won the Edogawa Rampo Prize and was adapted for TV.
youthschool settingmystery
Adaptations
- [television drama] The Girl High School Student Murder Case (1974)
Pythagoras Dies in the Bean Field
1974 mysteryA mystery novel using mathematical and school elements as themes.
schoolmathematicsmystery
Cleopatra's Black Sigh
1984 novel (experimental composition)An experimental work published as Japan's first horizontal-writing novel; it departs from conventional frameworks.
experimental structureyouth
Bibliography
- The Secret of the Hyakumantō
- The Secret of the Hyakumantō (also published as The Red Rose Brigade)
- Archimedes Does Not Get His Hands Dirty
- Pythagoras Dies in the Bean Field
- Socrates' Last Apology
- Pascal's Nose Was Long
- Diogenes Laughs at Three A.M.
- Recommendation of Filial Impiety: A Declaration of Youthful Independence
- Plato Likes a Red Gown
- Hippocrates' First Love Prescription
- Bell the Aesop's Neck
- Pandora's University Entrance Test of Romance Ability
- When Hesiod Sows Seeds the Crows Peck
- Youth Lyric Death Collection (Poseidon's Youth Lyric Death Collection)
- Solon's Little Demons
- Euclid's Treatise on Murder (Basic & Applied)
- Homer's Murder Equation
Adaptations
- The Girl High School Student Murder Case (TV drama)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- light, brisk prosenarrative rooted in youth fiction
- Recurring Motifs
- high-school studentsschool lifefriendship and mystery
Health
-
malignant lymphoma1994（罹患から死去）Developed in later years and led to his death in 1994.
Legacy
Regarded as a leading writer of youth-focused mystery novels. Many works went out of print after the 1990s, but his representative novel 'Archimedes Does Not Get His Hands Dirty' was republished in 2006, prompting renewed interest.
In Popular Culture
- Works such as 'Archimedes Does Not Get His Hands Dirty' were adapted for television.
Trivia
- His real name was Hirooka Sumio.
- Won the 19th Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1973 for 'Archimedes Does Not Get His Hands Dirty'.
- His representative work was republished in 2006.