Yasumi Kobayashi
Yasumi Kobayashi (小林泰三) (7 August 1962 – 23 November 2020)[1] was a Japanese author of horror, science fiction and mystery.
Career[]
His short story "The Man Who Watched the Sea" won the Hayakawa Award for best short story in 1998.[2] Two more were nominated for the Seiun Award for best short story; "Sora kara Kaze ga Yamu Toki" in 2003,[3] and "Arakajime Kettei Sareteiru Ashita" in 2004.[4]
In 2009, he was nominated as "Best Foreign Author" in the Chinese-language Galaxy Awards.[5]
Works in English translation[]
- "C-City" (Lairs of the Hidden Gods, Volume 3: Straight to Darkness, Kurodahan Press, 2006)[6]
- "The Man Who Watched the Sea" (Speculative Japan 2, Kurodahan Press, 2011)[7]
References[]
- ^ 作家・小林泰三先生ご逝去のお知らせ (in Japanese). Hayakawa Publishing. November 25, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
- ^ Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award
- ^ Seiun Award winners
- ^ Nominees for the Seiun Award
- ^ Galaxy Awards
- ^ Straight to Darkness | Kurodahan Press
- ^ Speculative Japan 2 | Kurodahan Press
External links[]
- Yasumi Kobayashi on Twitter
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- Yasumi Kobayashi at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Categories:
- 1962 births
- 2020 deaths
- 20th-century Japanese novelists
- 21st-century Japanese novelists
- Japanese male short story writers
- Japanese science fiction writers
- Japanese horror writers
- Japanese mystery writers
- Osaka University alumni
- Writers from Kyoto
- 20th-century Japanese short story writers
- 21st-century Japanese short story writers
- 20th-century Japanese male writers
- 21st-century male writers