Keizo Hino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Keizo Hino

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 14-Jun-1929

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 14-Oct-2002

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Keizo Hino (?? ??, Hino Keizo, June 14, 1929 – October 14, 2002) was a Japanese author. He won the 1974 Akutagawa Prize for Ano yuhi (The Evening Sun) and the 22nd Tanizaki Prize for Sakyu ga ugoku yo ni (????????).
Born in Tokyo, he accompanied his parents to Korea, when the country was still under Japanese colonial rule.
After the war, he returned to Japan, graduating from the University of Tokyo and joining the staff of the Yomiuri Shimbun, a leading Japanese newspaper, in 1952.
He served as a foreign correspondent in South Korea and Vietnam before becoming a novelist.
Though he is often described as an environmentalist author, the focus of much of his fiction is the urban physical environment.
Hino's works are striking for being simultaneously autobiographical and surrealistic.
His novel Yume no Shima has been translated into English by Charles de Wolf as Isle of Dreams, and into German by Jaqueline Berndt and Hiroshi Yamane as Trauminsel; a short story, Bokushikan, has been translated into English by Charles de Wolf as The Rectory; another short story, Hashigo no tatsu machi ?????, has been translated by Lawrence Rogers as "Jacob's Tokyo Ladder" and printed in 2002's Tokyo stories: a literary stroll.