Yoichi Funado
{{Short description|Japanese writer (1944–2015)}}
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| birth_name = Kenji Harada
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|02|08|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|04|22|1944|02|08|mf=y}}
| death_place = Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
| notableworks = May in the Valley of the Rainbow
| nationality = Japanese
| period = 1979–2015
| alma_mater = Waseda University
| genre = Adventure fiction, spy fiction, hardboiled, thriller, historical fiction
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| awards = Mystery Writers of Japan Award (1989)
Naoki Prize (2000)
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{{nihongo|Kenji Harada|原田建司|Harada Kenji|extra=February 8, 1944 – April 22, 2015}} better known by his pseudonym {{nihongo|Yoichi Funado|船戸与一|Funado Yoichi}} was a Japanese writer of adventure fiction.
Biography
Funado was born as Kenji Harada on February 8, 1944.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} During his student days, he traveled to Alaska. He graduated from Waseda University.{{cite web |url=http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20150423p2g00m0et040000c.html |title=Japanese adventure novel writer Funado dies at 71 |work=Mainichi |access-date=25 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150423023821/http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20150423p2g00m0et040000c.html |archive-date=23 April 2015 }} Funado wrote approximately 30 stories for the manga series Golgo 13, three of which he later novelized in 2011.{{cite web|url=https://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/news/6503|title=あの『ゴルゴ13』を直木賞作家・船戸与一氏が！いよいよ文庫化開始|publisher=Shogakukan|language=ja|date=2017-05-31|access-date=2018-02-10}}
Funado made his debut as an adventure novel writer in 1979. After writing some prize-winning adventure novels, in 2000 he won the Naoki Prize for his novel May in the Valley of the Rainbow.{{cite web|url=http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/838-yoichi-funado |title= Authors: Yoichi Funado|work= Books from Japan|access-date=25 April 2015}} In February 2015, he published the last volume of his nine-volume novel series on the history of Manchukuo.
Funado died of thymic cancer on April 22, 2015, in Suginami, Tokyo.
Works in English translation
- May in the Valley of the Rainbow (original title: Niji no Tani no Gogatsu), trans. Eve Nyren (Vertical, 2006){{cite web|url=http://www.vertical-inc.com/books/may.html|title=May in the Valley of the Rainbow|publisher=Vertical|access-date=23 August 2015}}
Awards
- Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize
- 1985 - Yamaneko no Natsu (Summer of the Wildcat)
- 1988 - Takeki Hakobune
- 1989 - Densetsu Naki Chi
- 1992 - Suna no Kuronikuru (Sand Chronicle)
- 1996 - Ezochi Bekken
- 2004 - Yume wa Arechi o
- Other awards
- 1985 - Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers: Yamaneko no Natsu (Summer of the Wildcat)
- 1988 - The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1988): Densetsu Naki Chi
- 1989 - Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel: Densetsu Naki Chi
- 1992 - Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize: Suna no Kuronikuru (Sand Chronicle)
- 1993 - The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 1993): Suna no Kuronikuru (Sand Chronicle)
- 2000 - Naoki Prize: May in the Valley of the Rainbow
- 2014 - Japan Mystery Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement
Main works
- Higōhōin (1979)
- Chi to Yume (1982)
- Yamaneko no Natsu (lit. Summer of the Wildcat) (1984)
- Takeki Hakobune (1987)
- Densetsu Naki Chi (1988)
- Midori no Soko no Soko (1989)
- Suna no Kuronikuru (lit. Sand Chronicle) (1991)
- Ezochi Bekken (1995)
- Niji no Tani no Gogatsu (2000) (May in the Valley of the Rainbow. Vertical. 2006) {{ISBN|978-1-93223-428-2}}
- Yume wa Arechi o (2003)
- Kahan ni Shirube Naku (lit. No Sign on the Riverside) (2006)
- Manshukoku Engi (2007–2015) (nine volumes)
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Category:20th-century Japanese novelists
Category:21st-century Japanese novelists
Category:Japanese crime fiction writers
Category:Mystery Writers of Japan Award winners
Category:Japanese historical novelists
Category:People from Shimonoseki
Category:Writers from Yamaguchi Prefecture
Category:Waseda University alumni