Hoseki Award
1回登壇
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第12回（1959年） honorable mention
Yonosuke Kuroki
くろき ようのすけ
Kuroki Yonosuke
別名:
筑波 昭
ペンネーム:
Akira Tsukuba（Used for nonfiction works and some investigative books）
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1928 （Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan）
- 国籍
- Japan
- 言語
- Japanese
経歴
- 職業
- Writer, Non-fiction writer, Editor
- 活動期間
- 1950年〜1989年
- 所属
- Ibaraki Shimbun (served as deputy editor), The Mystery Writers of Japan (member; listed as deceased member)
- 所属団体
- The Mystery Writers of Japan
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nihon University, College of Art | College of Art | — | — | — | Japan |
Nihon University, College of Art
College of Art
国:
Japan
Left before graduation (dropped out)
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Houseki Prize (contest) | The Poisonous Serpent of Cleopatra | — | Houseki (magazine) | finalist |
| 1967 | Edogawa Rampo Prize (finalist) | Points of Ambition | — | Edogawa Rampo Prize selection committee | finalist |
Houseki Prize (contest)
1957
対象作品:
The Poisonous Serpent of Cleopatra
主催:
Houseki (magazine)
結果:
finalist
Edogawa Rampo Prize (finalist)
1967
対象作品:
Points of Ambition
主催:
Edogawa Rampo Prize selection committee
結果:
finalist
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Points of Ambition
1967年 Mystery novelA long-form mystery novel depicting crimes and human relationships intertwined with ambition and vested interests.
ambitioncrimehuman relationships
Illusion of the Trap
1969年 Mystery novelA work exploring hidden traps behind incidents and the entanglement of psychology.
trapspsychologydeception
Backlight Blues
1970年 Mystery novelA mid-to-long length story themed around truths emerging in backlight and shadows of the past.
the pasttruthloneliness
Tsuyama Massacre: Why the Village's Talented Youth Committed the Crime
1981年 Non-fiction / True crimeA nonfiction investigative book examining the background and social factors behind an actual crime.
true crimecriminal historysocial analysis
全著作
- Points of Ambition
- Illusion of the Trap
- Backlight Blues
- The Legacy of the Empire of Japan
- Skewed Challenge: The Zero Room of the San-Oh Hotel
- The Porno Murder Case
- Competing Motives to Kill
- Phantom Field of Murder
- The Tombstone Turned Aside
- True Record: The Greatest Incident of the Great Earthquake
- Midday Illusion
- True Record: The Greatest Incident of the Combined Fleet
- Dark Currents
- Festival of Fiction
- No Reward for Murder
- The Yamatai-koku Murder Case
- The Man Who Shook the Kremlin
- Design of Desire
- Target: The Kremlin — Devilish Plot
- Tsuyama Massacre: Why the Village's Talented Youth Committed the Crime
- Spring of 1971 in Gunma: The Crimes of Kiyoshi Okubo
- The Andropov Corps
- Bizarre Crimes: A Comprehensive View of Representative Cases from Meiji, Taisho, and Showa
- False Orders: Novel of a Resident Spy Corps
- Target: The She-Leopard
- Fallacious Deduction: Essay 'The Murder of Natsume Soseki'
- Sleeper: The Revived Ghost of Stalin
- The Dropout Detective: Kairakuen Murder Case
- Detective Rampo: True Record — The Sendagaya Pass Seller Murder
- The Murder of a Young Wife in Sugamo: The Most Difficult Prewar Showa Case
- The Stamp-Collecting Maniac Murder Case
作風・主題
- 文体
- A hard-nosed, investigative nonfiction styleMystery-structure writing that probes social issues
- 頻出モチーフ
- crimeconspiracyshadows of postwar society
評価・遺産
A writer active in both nonfiction investigations of postwar crimes and mystery fiction. Records of his later life are sparse; he is listed as a deceased member by the Mystery Writers of Japan.
関連学会
- The Mystery Writers of Japan
豆知識
- Born Yonosuke Kuroki; used the pen name Akira Tsukuba.
- 'The Poisonous Serpent of Cleopatra' was a finalist for the Houseki Prize in 1957.
- 'Points of Ambition' was a finalist for the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1967.
- Listed as a deceased member in the Mystery Writers of Japan membership roster.