Tensei Kono
Tensei Kono (河野 典生 Kōno Tensei, January 27, 1935 – January 29, 2012) was a Japanese mystery and science fiction writer who won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award and the Naoki Prize. His short fiction including his story "Triceratops" ("トリケラトプス") has been translated into English in anthologies such as Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories and The World Treasury of Science Fiction.[1]
Life
Kono was born in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture and studied French literature at Keio University. While at the university he began writing poems, plays, and fantasy novels, publishing his play The Fallen Hawk in the school's literary magazine.
Writing career
In 1958, Kono dropped out of Keio University and began working in television. The following year he submitted Going My Way to a call for original novels for the Nippon Television program Night Prism, which his work being selected. He also began publishing short stories one after another in magazines such as the Japanese edition of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. In 1960 he published a collection of short stories, Young Men Die in the Sun, and the following year the collection On the Asphalt. In 1963 he won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award for A Livestock Named Murderous.
Works
- 1964 Black Sun. (Kuroi taiyô) (Story for film.)[2]
- 1989 Triceratops. (The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories, Dembner Books, 1989 / Barricade Books, 1997)
- Hikari (Speculative Japan, Kurodahan Press, 2007)[3]
References
- ↑ Brown, Charles N.; Contento, William G. (1987-01-01). Science fiction, fantasy & horror. Locus Press. ISBN 978-0-9616629-4-3. Retrieved 5 January 2011. Search this book on
- ↑ "Black Sun (1964) - IMDb". IMDb.
- ↑ "Speculative Japan | Kurodahan Press". Retrieved 2022-11-08.
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