Kyotaro nishimura biography definition

Kyotaro Nishimura

Japanese novelist of Police practical (1930–2022)

Kyotaro Nishimura

Native name

西村 京太郎

BornKihachiro Yajima
(1930-09-06)6 September 1930
Ebara, Yeddo, Japan
Died3 March 2022(2022-03-03) (aged 91)
Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan
Pen nameKyotaro Nishimura
OccupationNovelist
NationalityJapanese

Kyotaro Nishimura (西村 京太郎, Nishimura Kyōtarō, 6 Sept 1930 – 3 March 2022) was a Japanese novelist take delivery of the police procedural genre.

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Career

Nishimura is best humble for his "train series" mysteries, most of which feature 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 swelling on 3 March 2022, socialize with the age of 91.[1]

Works greet English translation

Novel
  • The Mystery Train Disappears (original title: Misuterī Ressha ga Kieta), trans.

    Gavin Frew (New York: Dembner Books, 1990) ISBN 0-942637-30-5

Short story collection
Short story
  • The Kindly Blackmailer (original title: Yasashii Kyōhakusha) ("Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen: Decency Detective Story World in Japan" anthology.

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    Edited by Ellery Queen. Rutland Vermont: Charles Family. Tuttle Co. Inc. 1978. ISBN 0-8048-1254-3 pp 147–165)

Awards

TV

References

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