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Keigo Higashino


Born
in Osaka, Japan
February 04, 1958

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Associated Names:
* Keigo Higashino
* 東野 圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)


Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.

Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. (presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.

In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel Himitsu (The Secret), which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and pu
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“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.”
Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“It’s more difficult to create the problem than to solve it. All the person trying to solve the problem has to do is always respect the problem’s creator.”
Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Watching people is a bit of a hobby of mine. It's quite fascinating, really.”
Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

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What should we read in October and November?

Top two books via RANKED CHOICE win as October and November reads. Take a look at the thread for more info about books. Please check your local availability/price comfort before you vote. Again, apologies for going AWOL, but it slowed us down. Vote by Friday so people have time to get book copies?

Vote for your top choice in the polling. If you want, rank your other choices in the comments. I will tabulate if Bill will set up the spreadsheet. (Thanks, Bill!)

Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder); 288 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability—newly released in August; no obvious CWs
 
  7 votes 50.0%

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada (trans. Margaret Mitsutani; ~230 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; no obvious CWs
 
  4 votes 28.6%

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura (trans. Philip Gabriel); ~350 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW bullying
 
  2 votes 14.3%

In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami; ~200 pages, depending on the edition; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW for significant violence
 
  1 vote 7.1%

Journey Under the Midnight Sun aka (Under the Midnight Sun in North America) by Keigo Higashino (trans. Alexander O. Smith); ~530 pages; US and UK availability on Bookshop.org; CW—it's a murder mystery
 
  0 votes 0.0%

Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe (trans. Kerim Yasar); 155 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW misogyny, generally creepy male protagonist
 
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