Tomoyuki Hoshino

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Full Name	Tomoyuki Hoshino
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 13, 1965(1965-07-13)
Age	59
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Cancer

Tomoyuki Hoshino Biography

Tomoyuki Hoshino is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 13, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Tomoyuki Hoshino (Xing Ye Zhi Xing , Hoshino Tomoyuki, born on July 13, 1965) is a Japanese writer. He has been awarded the Bungei Prize and the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize and the Oe Kenzaburo Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Tanizaki Prize.

He has published a variety of writings and stories that are both non-fiction and fiction. He also writes guest commentary for magazines and newspapers about the field of sports (especially soccer), Latin America, nationalist politics, the arts. The shorter story “Chino” has been translated into English by Lucy Fraser, and is included in his collection of short stories “We, the Children of Cats” (2012), published by PM Press and otherwise translated by Brian Bergstrom; his novel Lonely Hearts Killer has been translated into English by Adrienne Hurley and also was published in the same way by PM Press.

In 2011 Hoshino received his first Kenzaburo Oe Prize for his novel Ore Ore (2010), which examines the meaning for identity within the modern age. The title is derived in reference to the first person Japanese word ore (An ‘I’ or’me’) . In the beginning of the novel, the protagonist engages in a type of fraud that is known in Japan as an ore-ore scam (An An Zha Qi “me-me scam”) that involves him contacts an elderly person, pretending to be a family member, and attempts to convince the person who is on the other side of the to transfer money. In the novel, the protagonist discovers that he is unknowingly entangled in the world by the identity of the one they have taken for granted, and as someone else takes on his identity. This triggers a chain reaction of identity theft that extends to the edge of society and creates an increasingly eerie and perilous world where nobody is the person they appear to be. The novel is translated into ME from Charles De Wolf for Akashic Books.

Tomoyuki Hoshino Net Worth

Tomoyuki Hoshino is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tomoyuki Hoshino 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The family was born to a family in Los Angeles, he accompanied his family to Japan before he reached the age of 3 years old. He was a student at Waseda University and worked for some time as a journalist following his graduation in 1988. He spent the majority of 1990 and 1990 spending time within Mexico after which he returned to Japan and for a time he was working on translating Spanish-language films into Japanese. In 1997, he released his debut novel, The Last Gasp, for which he won the Bungei Prize. He was awarded the thirteenth Yukio Mishima Prize in recognition of his next book The Mermaid Sings Wake Up which was released in 2000. He was awarded the Noma Literary New Face Prize for Fantasista in 2003. Other stories include The Poisoned Singles Hot Springs (2002), Naburiai (2003), Lonely Hearts Killer (2004), Alkaloid Lovers (2005) The Worussian-Japanese Tragic (2006), The Story of Rainbow and Chloe (2006) as well as the book We the Children of Cats (2006). The novella “Sand Planet” was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 2002.1.

Hoshino travels often and has been a part of writers’ retreats with writers of Taiwan, India, and other countries. The year 2006 saw his criticism of Ichiro Suzuki’s comments at his remarks at the World Baseball Classic were considered controversial by some, as are some of his other writings about Japanese nationalists and the emperor’s sexuality as well as bullying as well as Japanese society. In 2006 Bungei, a literary journal Bungei made an issue specifically dedicated to Hoshino as well as his writing. Hoshino teaches creative writing at Waseda the school he attended as a child. In January 2007 He was again nominated to be a finalist for the Akutagawa Prize, this time for Shokubutsu Shindanshitsu, the Plant Medical Examination Room[Plant Medical Examination Room]. *[2]

In 2014 Hoshino won the Yomiuri Prize for Yoru wa owaranai (夜は終わらない , The Night Is Not Over) , a novel based on One Thousand and One Nights that shifts narrative voice to misdirect the reader. In 2018 he won the Tanizaki Prize for Honō (焰 ) .

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