Fuminori Nakamura

Fuminori Nakamura (中村文則) is a Japanese novelist born September 2, 1977, in Aichi Prefecture. He graduated from Fukushima University in 2000 with a degree in public administration.

His debut novel, The Gun, won the Shinchō Prize for New Writers in 2002; he won the Noma Literary Prize in 2004 for Shakō and the Akutagawa Prize in 2005 for The Boy in the Earth. His 2010 novel The Thief won the Ōe Kenzaburō Prize and later the David L. Goodis Award from NoirCon.

He cites Franz Kafka and Fyodor Dostoyevsky as literary influences, and lives in Tokyo.