Kyotaro Nishimura Explained
| Kyotaro Nishimura |
| Native Name: | 西村 京太郎 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Pseudonym: | Kyotaro Nishimura |
| Birth Name: | Kihachiro Yajima |
| Birth Date: | 6 September 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Ebara, Tokyo, Japan |
| Death Place: | Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
was a Japanese novelist in the police procedural genre.
Career
Nishimura is best known for his "train series" mysteries, most of which feature his characters, police detectives Shozo Totsugawa, Sadao Kamei and Tokitaka Honda. He won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1981 for The Terminal Murder Case.
Nishimura was married to Mizue Yajima. He died from liver cancer on 3 March 2022, at the age of 91.[1]
Works in English translation
- Novel
- The Mystery Train Disappears (original title: Misuterī Ressha ga Kieta), trans. Gavin Frew (New York: Dembner Books, 1990)
- Short story collection
- The Isle of South Kamui and Other Stories (original title: Minami Kamuito), trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Thames River Press, 2013)
- Short story
- The Kindly Blackmailer (original title: Yasashii Kyōhakusha) ("Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen: The Detective Story World in Japan" anthology. Edited by Ellery Queen. Rutland Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Inc. 1978. pp 147–165)
Awards
TV
- Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery[2] [3]
- Kyotaro Nishimura Suspense -Susumu Samonji
- Inspector Totsugawa Series[4]
References
- News: Japanese Mystery Novelist Kyotaro Nishimura Dies at 91 . 6 March 2022 . Ji Ji Press . 6 March 2022.
- Web site: tv asahi holdings corporation. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180705180252/http://www.tv-asahihd.co.jp/e/contents/conference/2008/0528.html . 5 July 2018 .
- Web site: Mystery Theatre, Mystery Japanese Drama, KIKU TV | KIKU-TV Hawaii. 14 September 2018. 12 January 2019. 13 January 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190113064318/http://kikutv.com/mystery-theatre/. dead.
- Web site: Mystery Theatre, Mystery Japanese Drama, KIKU TV KIKU-TV Hawaii. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170226152409/http://kikutv.com/mystery-theatre-2 . 26 February 2017 .
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