Keigo Higashino

1958 -

country of citizenship: Japan

native language: Japanese

languages spoken, written or signed: Japanese

educated at: Osaka Prefecture University

occupation: novelist, writer, screenwriter, engineer

award received: Shibata Renzaburō Award, Edogawa Rampo Award, Chūōkōron Award, Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature, Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize

Keigo Higashino (Japanese: 東野圭吾, Hepburn: Higashino Keigo, born February 4, 1958) is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels. He served as the 13th President of Mystery Writers of Japan from 2009 to 2013. Higashino has won major Japanese awards for his books, almost twenty of which have been turned into films and TV series. Source: Wikipedia (en)