Tomoyuki HoshinoTomoyuki Hoshino was born in 1965 in Los Angeles, but moved to Japan when he was two. After graduating from college, he worked as a journalist at one of Japan's major newspapers, then went to Mexico for further study and fell in love with soccer and atin America. He made his debut as a writer in 1998 with the novella Saigo no toiki (Last Gasp), which won the Bungei Prize. In 2000, he established his reputation as a serious literary writer with the novel Mezameyo to ningyo wa utau, which won the Mishima Yukio Prize. Fantajisuta was awarded the Noma Prize for New Writers in 2003. Hoshino employs a highly original style that subverts and plays with unconventional scenarios. His other works include the novels Ronri hatsu kira (Lonely Hearts Killer) and Niji to Kuroe no monogatari. Read More Read Less