Yū Nagashima

Yū Nagashima (長嶋 有) is a Japanese novelist born on September 30, 1972, in Sōka, Saitama Prefecture, who grew up in Hokkaidō and studied Japanese literature at Tōyō University. Japanese Goodreads. He debuted in 2001 with the novella Le Chien dans le side-car (Sidecar ni Inu), winning the Bungakukai New Writers' Prize, followed by the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2002 for Ma mère à toute allure (Mō Speed de Haha wa), and the Kenzaburō Ōe Prize in 2007 for Yūko-chan no chikamichi. Herder. Two of his novels have been adapted into films or television, and he writes game reviews under the pseudonym Bourbon Kobayashi and haiku as Kenkō Nagashima.