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Hideo Furukawa
🇯🇵Japan
Hideo Furukawa writes with a wild, maximalist energy that sets him apart in contemporary Japanese fiction. His contribution to The Book of Tokyo offers a concentrated glimpse of his style — densely layered, historically allusive, and formally adventurous. His broader body of work in Japanese ranges from retellings of The Tale of the Heike to post-apocalyptic fiction set in Fukushima.
Furukawa is a writer who refuses to be pinned down — each book reinvents his approach from scratch. He writes with the intensity of someone who believes that fiction should be as overwhelming as life itself. For English readers, his Tokyo story is an invitation to a literary sensibility that is boisterous, learned, and uncompromisingly strange.
