Hideo Furukawa

HIDEO FURUKAWA (b. 1966) is one of the most innovative writers in Japan today. His novel Belka, Why Don't You Bark? was translated by Michael Emmerich; his partly fictional reportage Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure: A Tale That Begins with Fukushima was translated by Doug Slaymaker with Akiko Takenaka; and his short novel Slow Boat was translated by David Boyd. He has received the Noma New Face Prize, Mystery Writers of Japan Award, the Japan SF Grand Prize, and the Yukio Mishima Award. After translating the medieval classic The Tale of the Heike into modern Japanese, he published The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-oh Chapters in 2017; the animated musical film based on the novel, directed by Masaaki Yuasa, was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2023 Golden Globes. His work appears in every volume of Monkey Business and MONKEY.