Fuminori Nakamura

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Fuminori Nakamura, 2013

Fuminori Nakamura ( 中 村 文 則 , Nakamura Fuminori ; born September 2, 1977 ) is a Japanese writer.

Life

Nakamura was born in Tōkai ( Aichi Prefecture ). He graduated from Fukushima University with a degree in Public Administration and Government Administration in 2000 ; today he lives in Tokyo . In Japan, Fuminori Nakamura has published more than a dozen novels. His works have been translated into numerous languages ​​and have appeared in the USA, England, China, France and Spain, among others. In 2002 he received the Shinchō Young Talent Award for his debut novel. In 2004 he was awarded the Noma Literature Prize for Shakō and the Akutagawa Prize the following year for Tsuchi no naka no kodomo . In 2010 he received the erhielte Kenzaburō Prize for the novel Suri . Suri was also well received by critics in the English translation entitled The Thief . The novel was published in 2015 by the Swiss Diogenes Verlag under the title Der Dieb as the first of Nakamura's works in German.

Nakamura mentions Franz Kafka and Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski as literary influences .

Works in German translation

  • The revolver. Original title: Jū , translated by Thomas Eggenberg. Diogenes, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-257-07061-3
  • The mask. Original title: Aku to komm no rūru , translated by Thomas Eggenberg. Diogenes, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-257-07021-7
  • The thief. Original title: Suri , translated by Thomas Eggenberg. Diogenes, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-257-06945-7

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Perceptual psychological study, existentialist scenario and parable critical of capitalism , review by Michaela Schmitz of Der Dieb in: Deutschlandfunk from February 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Nakamura, Fuminori
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 中 村 文 則 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1977