Hideo Yokoyama
Hideo Yokoyama is a Japanese novelist.
Yokoyama specializes in mystery novels.
He repeated his Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! No. 1 ranking in 2013 with Six Four.
The English edition of Six Four, translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, was shortlisted for the 2016 CWA International Dagger.
He is known for his career as journalist for the Jomo Shimbun, the regional paper in Gunma.Works in English translation
Novels
- Six Four, trans. Jonathan Lloyd-Davies
- Seventeen, trans. Louise Heal Kawai
- Prefecture D, trans. Jonathan Lloyd-Davies
- Motive, trans. Beth Cary
Essay
- My Favourite Mystery, "Paradise lost in the box" by Kenji Takemoto
Awards and nominations
;Japanese Awards
;UK Award
- 2016 – Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger: Six Four
Novels
- Deguchi no Nai Umi, 1996
- Kage no Kisetsu, 1998
- *English translation: Prefecture D, riverrun, 2019
- Han'ochi, 2002
- Kuraimāzu hai, 2003
- *English translation: Seventeen, riverrun, 2018
- Rupan no Shōsoku, 2005
- Shindo Zero, 2005
- Rokuyon, 2012
- *English translation: Six Four, riverrun, 2016
- Nōsu Raito, 2019
Short story collections
- Dōki, 2000
- Kao, 2002
- Fukaoi, 2002
- Shinsō, 2003
- Kagefumi, 2003
- Kanshugan, 2004
- Rinjō, 2004
- Rinjō Special Book, 2010
Film adaptations
- Half a Confession
- Deguchi no Nai Umi
- Climber's High
- Rinjō
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- Kagefumi
