Arimasa Ōsawa

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Arimasa Ōsawa ( Japanese 大 沢 在 昌 , Ōsawa Arimasa ; born March 8, 1956 in Nagoya , Japan ) is a Japanese author of hardboiled detective novels and thrillers . He dropped out of college at Keio University .

As a schoolboy, Ōsawa published his first texts, but later had little success with his detective novels, although he won the first prize for detective novels in 1979. With the first volume of the Hai von Shinjuku series (1990ff.) He finally achieved his breakthrough. Since then, Ōsawa has been one of the most successful crime writers in Japan.

In addition to The Shinjuku Shark , Ōsawa is also the author of two other crime series, about the private detective Ko Sakuma (1980–2000) and Arubaito . (1986-2004).

So far, the first and second parts of the Hai von Shinjuku series have been published in German by cass Verlag , which specializes in Japanese literature, translated by Katja Busson.

Works

Ko-Sakuma series

  1. Hyōteki Sōro ( 標的 走路 , 1980)
  2. Tsuisekisha no Kettō ( 追 跡 者 の 血統 , 1986)
  3. Yukihotaru ( 雪 蛍 , 1996)
  4. Kokoro de wa Omosugiru ( 心 で は 重 す ぎ る , 2000)

Arubaito series

  1. Arubaito Ai (short story collection) ( ア ル バ イ ト 探 偵 , 1986)
  2. Arubaito Ai: Chōdokushi o Sagase ( ア ル バ イ ト 探 偵 調 毒 師 を 捜 せ , 1987)
  3. Joō-heika no Arubaito Ai ( 女王 陛下 の ア ル バ イ ト 探 偵 , 1988)
  4. Fushigi no Kuni no Arubaito Ai ( 不 思議 の 国 の ア ル バ イ ト 探 偵 , 1989)
  5. Arubaito Ai: Gōmon Yūenchi ( ア ル バ イ ト 探 偵 拷問 遊 園地 , 1991)
  6. Kaette kita Arubaito Ai ( 帰 っ て き た ア ル バ イ ト 探 偵 , 2004)

The Shinjuku shark

  1. Shinjuku-zame. ( 新宿 鮫 , 1990, German 2005)
  2. Shinjuku-zame II. Dokuzaru ( 毒 猿 新宿 鮫 II, 1991, German 2006)
  3. Shinjuku-zame III - Shikabane-ran ( 屍 蘭 新宿 鮫 III, 1993)
  4. Shinjuku-zame IV - Mugen ningyō ( 無間 人形 新宿 鮫 IV, 1993)
  5. Shinjuku-zame V - Honō Sanagi ( 炎 蛹 新宿 鮫 V, 1995)
  6. Shinjuku-zame VI - Kōri Mai ( 氷舞 新宿 鮫 VI, 1997)
  7. Shinjuku-zame VII - Haiya ( 灰 夜 新宿 鮫 VII, 2001)
  8. Shinjuku-zame VIII - Fūka Suimyaku ( 風化 水 脈 新宿 鮫 VIII, 2000)
  9. Shinjuku-zame IX - Ōkami-Bana ( 狼 花 新宿 鮫 IX, 2006)
  10. Shinjuku-zame X - Kizuna Kairō ( 絆 回廊 新宿 鮫 X, 2011)

German translations

  • Shinjuku-zame (1990)
    • The Shinjuku Shark - Sodom and Gomorrah . From the Japanese by Katja Busson, cass Verlag Löhne 2005. 256 pages. ISBN 3-9809022-2-6
  • Shinjuku-zame II. Dokuzaru (1991)
    • The Shinjuku shark - revenge in Chinese . From the Japanese by Katja Busson, cass Verlag Löhne 2007. 321 pages. ISBN 978-3-9809022-3-6
    • Poison Monkey: The Shinjuku Shark . From the Japanese by Katja Busson, Pendragon 2014. 448 pages. ISBN 9783865324177

Prices

  • 1978 Shosetsu Suiri Prize for Kanshō no Machikado
  • 1991 Japanese Mystery Writer Award for Shinjuku Shark
  • 1991 Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for first works for The Shinjuku Shark
  • 1991 Award for the best Japanese crime novel of the year (Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1991) for The Shinjuku Shark
  • 1993 Naoki Prize for Shinjuku-Zame IV
  • 2000 Prize of the Japan Adventure Fiction Association (Nihon Bōken Shōsetsu Kyōkai Taishō) for the novel Kokoro de wa Omosugiru
  • 2001 Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize for Yamisaki Annainin
  • 2004 Shibata Renzaburo Prize for Pandora Airando
  • 2006 Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize for Shinjuku-Zame IX
  • 2010 Japan Mystery Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement
  • 2011 Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize for Shinjuku-Zame X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Robert F. Wittkamp: Murder in Japan. The Japanese crime thriller and its heroes: from World War II to the present . iudicium, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-89129-745-9 , p. 96-106 .
  2. ↑ Arimasa Osawa . Krimi-Couch.de. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Ōsawa, Arimasa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 大 沢 在 昌 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese author
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagoya