Yū Nagashima

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Yū Nagashima ( Japanese 長 嶋 有 , Nagashima Yū ; born September 30, 1972 in Sōka , Saitama Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer .

Nagashima grew up in Hokkaidō . He studied Japanese literature at Tōyō University . He began to write while still a student, and in 2001 he received the Bungakukai literary magazine's award for young authors for his debut novel Side car ni inu . The following year he received the Akutagawa Prize for Mo speed de haha ​​wa . In 2007 he was awarded the Ōe-Kenzaburō Prize donated by the Kōdansha publishing house for Yūko-chan no chikamichi . Two of his novels were filmed for television. Nagashima also writes computer game reviews under the pseudonymBurubon Kobayashi and Haiku poems under the name Kenkō Nagashima ( 長 嶋 肩 甲 , Nagashima Kenkō ).

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