The Camphorwood Custodian, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store Author Keigo Higashino Dies
The award-winning author sold more than 100 million books in Japan and had a novel scheduled for publication next month.
- Japanese mystery writer Keigo Higashino died at 68 on Thursday, July 23, from colorectal cancer, his publisher Kodansha announced in Tokyo.
- Spanning four decades, Higashino published 106 books after transitioning from an engineer at Denso to a full-time author, gaining international fame for 'The Devotion of Suspect X.'
- His domestic sales topped more than 100 million copies, and he won the Edogawa Rampo Prize for his debut 'After School' and the Naoki Prize in 2006.
- Following a private funeral, tributes appeared across Japanese social media, with novelist Naoki Hyakuta writing that Higashino was a 'truly talented writer' who understood 'what a story is.'
- Readers will receive one final work from the author, as his final Galileo novel 'Eternal Memory' is scheduled for publication on August 5, according to Kodansha.
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Keigo Higashino, author of 'The Devotion of Suspect X', dies at 68
Japanese mystery author Keigo Higashino has died at age sixty-eight. His publisher announced his passing on Monday, which caused widespread grief. Higashino wrote over one hundred books, translated into many languages worldwide. His works were adapted for film and television, gaining him a large following. He was known for merging science and detective fiction with human observations.
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The Japanese writer Keigo Higashino died at the age of 68.
Keigo Higashino, one of Japan's most successful crime writers, died. He was 68 years old.
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