Keizo Hino

was a Japanese author.

He won the 1974 Akutagawa Prize for "Ano yūhi" ("The Evening Sun") and the 1986 Tanizaki Prize for nihongo|"Sakyu ga ugoku yo ni"|砂丘が動くように. Born in Tokyo, he accompanied his parents to Korea, when the country was still under Japanese colonial rule. After the war, he returned to Japan, graduating from the University of Tokyo and joining the staff of the Yomiuri Shimbun, a leading Japanese newspaper, in 1952. He served as a foreign correspondent in South Korea and Vietnam before becoming a novelist. Though he is (somewhat misleadingly) described as an environmentalist author, his works are striking for being simultaneously autobiographical and surrealistic. His novel Yume no Shima (lit. Dream Island) has been translated into German as Trauminsel; a short story, Bokushikan, has been translated into English as The Rectory.

Selected works

* "Seinaru kanata e : waga tamashii no henreki", Kyoto : PHP Kenkyūjo, 1981.
* "Hōyō", Tokyo : Shueisha, 1982.
* "Tenmado no aru garēji", Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1982.
* "Kagaku no saizensen", Tokyo : Gakuseisha, 1982.
* "Seikazoku", Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1983.
* "Nazukerarenu mono no kishibe nite", Tokyo : Shuppan Shinsha, 1984.
*, Tokyo : Kodansha, 1985.
*, Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1986.
*, Tōkyō : Sakuhinsha, 1987.
*, Tokyo : Shueisha, 1987.
*, Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1988.
*, Tokyo : Fukutake Shoten, 1990.
*, Tokyo : Chūō Kōronsha, 1992.
*, Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1993.