is a Japanese writer active during the late Shōwa and early Heisei period periods of Japan.

Biography

Fujisawa was born in the former Uchino-machi (then in Nishikanbara District,

Niigata Prefecture is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,227,496 (1 July 2019) and is the fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area at . Niigata Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture and ...

; now part of Nishi-ku, Niigata), and a graduate of the Literature Department of

Hosei University is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan. The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha (, i.e. Tokyo association of law), established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō (, i.e. Tokyo school of law ...

. In 1998, he was awarded the prestigious

Akutagawa Prize The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is, along with the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most sought after literary prizes. History Th ...

for his novel ''Buenosu Airesu gozen reiji'' (Midnight In Buenos Aires). He is currently working as a professor at Hosei University.

References

J'Lit , Authors : Shu Fujisawa* , Books from Japan
1959 births Living people People from Niigata (city) 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists Hosei University alumni Hosei University faculty Akutagawa Prize winners {{japan-writer-stub