Keiichirō Hirano

Keiichirō Hirano (born June 22, 1975) is a Japanese novelist who debuted with Eclipse (Nisshoku) in 1998, winning the Akutagawa Prize in 1999 at age 23—one of the youngest recipients ever. Notable works include A Man (2018, adapted into a film that won Japan Academy Film Prize for Picture of the Year) and At the End of the Matinee (filmed in 2019); he has received awards like the Yomiuri Literary Prize (2019) and Kobayashi Hideo Prize (2023).