Introducing Yuichi HIRANAKA...

Yuichi HIRANAKA is a Japanese novelist born in 1965. 4 major publishers in Japan have released his 13 hardcovers and 5 paperbacks.
He is known as the author of She's Rain (1985) took Bungei prize:one of the most authoritative new writer prize in Japan.
His newest novel (10th book)Boku to Mizuki to Setsunai Uchu--No Sorrow Planet (2000) was released in hardcover by Kawadeshobo :a curious girl nemed Mizuki uninvitedly moved in the apartment of an 18 aged would-be rockstar boy who is running away form his parents because they didn't delight with his future plan. For more than that, Mizuki is his girlfriend's little sis and pretending to be a boy....The summer of a lifetime begins!....

He loves The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald since his days of junior high. Started writing the first novel when he was 17, inspired by J.D.Salinger's Nine Stories. With the very same novel She's Rain he debut. Aged 18, in 1984. He also loves Raymond Chandler and unconsciously, was deeply impressed by Henry Miller when he was only a child.
When he appeared in the Japanese "literary world" he was accepted as one of the followers of Haruki Murakami (the most popular quality-novel writer in Japan, born in 1949) . But he survived such critics instead of---like the other followers did---getting lost so far.
His works are not only the voice of younger---you can call it Japanese "X" or "New Lost," if you want---generation, but also a kind of "novel of manners" in the finest sense of the word.
They bring you something like cool breeze blowing in a big city or its suburb. He loves to write beautiful girls, beach going, comfortable clothes, smooth music or like that---something to make people feel good. So you can enjoy IT through his books, too. The difference between the "minimalism" from his works is that. They are everything but too pessimistic!

She's Rain is published in Japan 1985
Boku to Mizuki to Setunai Uchu is published in Japan 2000
Happiness in the pocket and other stories is published in Japan 2002
by Kawadeshobo publishing.
Mail address info@kawade.co.jp

The Love Letters (picture book) is published in Japan 2001 by Sakuhinsha publishing
Mail address sakuhinsha@tssplaza.co.jp  

and his latest book is.... A DOG IN MILAN, A CAT IN BARCELONA le chien à milan, le chat à barcelone Selected 44 finest cloumns & essays 1,800jpy+Tax 298 p ISBN: 4878936274 published by Sakuhinsha, Feb. 26 2004 Online shopping---[Amazon.co.jp] domestic shipping free Online shopping---[Rakuten Books] domestic shipping free

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The Writer's Table Power Mac G4 cube with which his next novel will turn out.... Macintosh Color Classic II with which I'm in Blue and Boku to Mizuki to Setsunai Uchu were written. Macintosh PowerBook180c with which Go! Go! Girls(<->swing out Boys) was written.

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