Kenzo Kitakata

Award winning author of The Cage, Winter Sleep, and Ashes , Kenzo Kitakata is the undisputed don of hardboiled and mystery writing in Japan. Of his more than one hundred novels, none have gone out of print. Awards and Honors: 1982, Japan Adventure Writing Association Award; Yoshikawa Eiji Award for Sleepless Nights 1983, Japan Adventure Writing Association Award for The Cage 1984, Japan Mystery Writers Association Award for Thirsty Town; Kadokawa Fiction Award for The Past: Remember 1985,...See more

Award winning author of The Cage, Winter Sleep, and Ashes , Kenzo Kitakata is the undisputed don of hardboiled and mystery writing in Japan. Of his more than one hundred novels, none have gone out of print. Awards and Honors: 1982, Japan Adventure Writing Association Award; Yoshikawa Eiji Award for Sleepless Nights 1983, Japan Adventure Writing Association Award for The Cage 1984, Japan Mystery Writers Association Award for Thirsty Town; Kadokawa Fiction Award for The Past: Remember 1985, Bungei Award for The Street With No Tomorrow 1990, Shibata Renzaburo Prize, Vanquishing Star 2005, Shiba Ryotaro Prize for Tales of the Water Margin See less