Toshiyuki Horie

Horie was born in Gifu Prefecture, and studied at Waseda University, where he is now a professor of creative writing.{{cite web|url=http://www.jpf.go.jp/JF_Contents/GetImage/img_pdf/jbn77.pdf?ContentNo=9&SubsystemNo=1&FileName=img_pdf/jbn77.pdf|title=A Man of Letters and a Bel Esprit|publisher=Japanese Book News|page=16|accessdate=December 28, 2013}} He studied for three years at the University of Paris III on a French government scholarship. Horie, who is also a member of many literary prize selection committees,{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/adv/wol/dy/research/kyoso_090623.htm|title=Neither Novels nor Essays- Simply Composing What I Want to Write|publisher=Yomiuri Shimbun|accessdate=December 28, 2013}} is a critic and translator of authors including Michel Foucault, Hervé Guibert, Michel Rio, and Jacques Réda. His books have been translated into French, Korean, and English.

• Kōgai e (郊外へ, "To the Suburbs"), 1995
• Shigosen wo motomete (子午線を求めて, "In Search of the Meridian"), 2000
• Kakareru te (書かれる手, "The Hand Which is Written"), 2000
• Kuma no shikiishi (熊の敷石, "The Bear and the Paving Stone"), 2000

• 1999 Mishima Yukio Prize for Oparavan (おぱらばん)
• 2001 Akutagawa Prize for Kuma no shikiishi (The Bear And The Paving Stone, 熊の敷石)
• 2004 Tanizaki Prize for Yukinuma to sono shūhen (Yukinuma and Its Environs, 雪沼とその周辺)
• 2005 Yomiuri Prize for Kagan bōjitsushō
• 2010 Yomiuri Prize, Section for Essay & Travelogue, for Seigen Kyokusen (正弦曲線, "Sine Curve")
• 2012 Sei Itō Literary Prize for Nazuna (なずな)
• 2013 Mainichi Book Review Prize for Furiko de kotoba wo saguru yō ni (振り子で言葉を探るように, "Like Fumbling for Words with a Pendulum")

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• [http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/416-toshiyuki-horie Toshiyuki Horie] at J'Lit Books from Japan {{in lang|en}}
• [http://www.jlpp.go.jp/en/works/04_17.html Synopsis of In and Around Yukinuma (Yukinuma to sono shuhen)] at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) {{in lang|en}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20131228152123/http://mainichi.jp/feature/news/20120622org00m040011000c.html Interview] {{in lang|ja}}
• [http://president.jp/articles/-/725 Interview] {{in lang|ja}}
• [https://www.pushkinpress.com/author/toshiyuki-horie/ Toshiyuki Horie] at Pushkin Press (in English)

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