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Tatsuaki Ishiguro

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Tatsuaki Ishiguro

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Full Name: Tatsuaki Ishiguro
Born: Hokkaido, Japan
Occupation: Lecturer, Writer
Nationality: Japanese
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Biography

Born in Hokkaido in 1961, Tatsuaki Ishiguro has served as a lecturer at Tokyo University and as an assistant professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and currently practices at a clinic in Tokyo.

In 1989, he won the Kaien Newcomer Award for Saishu Jouei (The Last Showing). While working for The University of Tokyo Hospital, he published many short stories. In 1994, the short story entitled "Dr. Nobuhiko Myoji, who died from AIDS on May 2nd, 1991, and..." was nominated for the Akutagawa Award, and won acclaim from Nobel Prize Winner Kenzaburo Oe and Koji Suzuki.

As the author of a unique brand of science fiction, he has been nominated for the Akutagawa Award, the Yukio Mishima Award, and the Seiun (Nebula) Award. Biogenesis is his first work to appear in English.


Works in the WWEnd Database

 Non Series Works

 (2015)