Sogen Mystery Short Story Award
1 appearances
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Edition 14 (2007) award
Kosuke Sawamura
さわむら こうすけ
Sawamura Kousuke
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1967 （Osaka Prefecture, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, mystery writer
- Active Years
- 2011-
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hannan University | Faculty of Economics | — | — | — | Japan |
Hannan University
Faculty of Economics
Country:
Japan
Graduated from Hannan University (year not specified)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Mysteries! New Writers Award | Indian Summer Incident (submitted) / Night Barber (retitled) | — | Tokyo Sogen-sha | winner |
Mysteries! New Writers Award
2007
Work:
Indian Summer Incident (submitted) / Night Barber (retitled)
Organization:
Tokyo Sogen-sha
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Indian Summer Incident
2011 Mystery (short story collection)A linked short-story collection including the titular piece (later retitled 'Night Barber'). Stories depict mysteries lurking in everyday life.
everyday mysterieslinked short storieshuman relationships
Southern Cross of the Northern Hemisphere
2015 MysteryA novel later retitled and reissued in paperback as 'Murder on Pirate Island'.
island settinglocked-room / trick
Weekend Detective
2016 MysteryWork focusing on a detective or characters who investigate incidents on weekends.
detective archetypeintersection of everyday life and crime
Time-Eating Prison
2019 Mystery with SF elementsA mystery that incorporates elements of time and memory.
timememoryclosed environments
Bibliography
- Indian Summer Incident (retitled 'Night Barber')
- Southern Cross of the Northern Hemisphere (retitled 'Murder on Pirate Island')
- Weekend Detective
- Time-Eating Prison
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- classic mystery-oriented logical plottingconcise, taut narration
- Recurring Motifs
- islands and closed settingsmemory and time dislocationdefamiliarization of the everyday
Legacy
Although not prolific, he is respected for dense mystery works; his short stories have been selected for best-of anthologies.
Trivia
- Won the Mysteries! New Writers Award in 2007 for 'Indian Summer Incident'.
- Short stories have been included in 'Honkaku Mystery 09', earning critical recognition.
- Debuted in 2011 with the short-story collection 'Indian Summer Incident' (later retitled 'Night Barber').