Tomoyuki Hoshino - Wikipedia

Tomoyuki Hoshino - Wikipedia




He has published many short stories and essays, both fiction and non-fiction. He also writes guest commentaries for newspapers and journals on sports (especially soccer), Latin America, politics, nationalism, and the arts. His short story "Chino" has been translated into English by Lucy Fraser, and is now part of his short story collection "We, the Children of Cats" (2012), published by PM Press and otherwise translated by Brian Bergstrom; his novel Lonely Hearts Killer has been translated into English by Adrienne Hurley and likewise published by PM Press.[1]

Hoshino travels frequently and has participated in writers' caravans with authors from Taiwan, India, and elsewhere. In 2006, his critique of Ichiro Suzuki's remarks at the World Baseball Classic were considered controversial by some, and so have some of his other writings related to Japanese nationalism, the emperor, sexuality, bullying, and Japanese society. Also in 2006, the literary journal Bungei dedicated a special issue to Hoshino and his work. He teaches creative writing at Waseda, his alma mater. In January 2007, he was nominated again for the Akutagawa Prize, this time for Shokubutsu shindanshitsu [Plant Medical Examination Room].*[2]

In 2011, Hoshino won the Kenzaburō Ōe Prize for his novel Ore Ore (2010), which explores the meaning of identity in the postmodern world.[2] The title takes its name from the first-person Japanese pronoun ore (俺 'I' or 'me'). Early in the novel, the narrator engages in a kind of scam known in Japan as a ore-ore sagi (俺俺詐欺 'me-me scam'), in which he calls up an older person, pretends to be a relative, and tries to get the person on the other end of the phone line to send money. In the novel, the narrator finds himself unwittingly pulled into the life of the person whose identity he has fraudulently assumed, at the same time that someone else assumes his identity. This starts a chain-reaction of identity-stealing that extends to the edges of society, creating an increasingly surreal and dangerous world in which no one is exactly who they seem. The novel has been translated as ME by Charles De Wolf for Akashic Books.

In 2014 Hoshino won the Yomiuri Prize for Yoru wa owaranai (夜は終わらない, The Night Is Not Over), a novel based on One Thousand and One Nights that shifts narrative voice to misdirect the reader.[3][4] In 2018 he won the Tanizaki Prize for Honō (焰).[5]

Bibliography[edit]
Selected works in Japanese[edit]
Yoru wa owaranai (夜は終わらない, The Night Is Not Over), Kodansha, 2014, ISBN 9784062189668
Selected works in English[edit]
"Chino," trans. by Lucy Fraser, Japan Fiction Project, 2006[6]

References[edit]

• ^ "Authors: Tomoyuki Hoshino". PM Press. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
• ^ "『第5回大江健三郎賞』は星野智幸『俺俺』" [5th Kenzaburō Ōe prize winner is Tomoyuki Hoshino for Ore Ore]. Cinra.net (in Japanese). April 7, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
• ^ "川上弘美さんと星野智幸さんに第６６回読売文学賞贈賞" [66th Yomiuri Prize given to Hiromi Kawakami and Tomoyuki Hoshino]. Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). March 2, 2015. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
• ^ 村田, 雅幸 (February 11, 2015). "小説賞「夜は終わらない」星野智幸さん ４９" [Novel Prize: The Night Is Not Over by 49 year old Tomoyuki Hoshino]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved September 18, 2018.
• ^ "第５４回谷崎潤一郎賞に星野智幸さん" [Tomoyuki Hoshino wins the 54th Tanizaki Prize]. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). August 27, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
• ^ Hoshino, Tomoyuki. "Chino". J'Lit. Translated by Fraser, Lucy. Archived from the original on December 31, 2006. Retrieved September 18, 2018.

Sources[edit]
New Nationalisms (University of Iowa symposium)