Jirō Akagawa
Japanese novelist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jirō Akagawa is a Japanese novelist born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Biography Best known for his humorous mysteries, Akagawa's first short story, "Ghost Train", was published in 1976 and went on to win the annually granted All Yomimono New Mystery Writers' Prize by Bungeishunjū, a Japanese literary publishing company. Other works of his, The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb and Voice from Heaven, were later made into anime, while Sailor Suit and Machine Gun was made into a popular live action movie. His most recognized works to date pertain to his Mike-neko Holmes series. He is extremely prolific; as of 2013, he had written more than 560 novels in the course of his thirty-year career, over 300 million individual published volumes.
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