熊の敷石 (The Bear and the Paving Stone)

Toshiyuki Horie (born January 3, 1964, in Gifu Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese author, translator, and professor of creative writing at Waseda University, where he studied French literature before spending three years at the University of Paris III on a French government scholarship. He is a critic and translator of French authors including Michel Foucault and Hervé Guibert, and has won major literary prizes such as the Akutagawa Prize for The Bear and the Paving Stone (2001), the Tanizaki Prize for Yukinuma and Its Environs (2004), and the Yomiuri Prize twice.