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The following is a list of Asian crime fiction writers whose works have been translated into one or more European languages. Novelists on this list should be notable in some way, and ideally have a Wikipedia article. Crime fiction writers may include the authors of any subgenre of crime fiction, including detective, mystery, or hard-boiled
Edogawa Rampo is the first Japanese modern mystery writer and the founder of the Detective Story Club in Japan.Rampo was an admirer of western mystery writers. He gained his fame in early 1920s, when he began to bring to the genre many bizarre, erotic and even fantastic elements.
Keigo Higashino (Japanese: 東野 圭吾, Hepburn: Higashino Keigo, born February 4, 1958) is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels. He served as the 13th President of Mystery Writers of Japan from 2009 to 2013. Higashino has won major Japanese awards for his books, almost twenty of which have been turned into films and TV ...
Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name. [2] Other authors who were special influences on him were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whom he attempted to translate into Japanese during his days as a student at Waseda University, and the Japanese mystery writer Ruikō ...
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Reception - Out had an initial print run of 500,000 in Japan. [2] Although Kirino received much criticism for her gruesome and disturbing scenes, Out sold a significantly large number of copies, won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, [1] and was even made into a film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama, which was released in 2002
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Soji Shimada graduated from Seishikan High School in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and later Musashino Art University as a Commercial arts design major. [1]After spending years as a dump truck driver, free writer, and musician, he made his debut as a mystery writer in 1981 when The Tokyo Zodiac Murders was shortlisted for the Edogawa Rampo Prize. [2]