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Extravagant fictionalist and stylist-virtuoso, one of the leaders of the “new wave” of Japanese literature, loving and able to boldly break literary taboos. He graduated from the Russian department of the University of Tokyo, now a professor at the largest Hosei University, chairman of the Japanese Union of Writers. The author of almost fifty novels, short stories, essays, plays, the winner of the most prestigious awards Noma and Izumi Keka, he increasingly travels around the world in search of new sensations, starred in films and staged performances.