Keigo Higashino
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- Name Keigo Higashino
- Japanese: 東野圭吾 （ひがしの けいご)
- Birthdate: February 4, 1958
- Birthplace: Ikuno Ward, Osaka City, Osaka, Japan
- University: Osaka Prefecture University
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Born in Osaka in 1958. He graduated from Osaka Prefectural University, where he majored in electrical engineering. He wrote novels while working as an engineer, and made his debut as a novelist in 1985 with After School, which won him the Edogawa Rampo Award. As a full-time writer, he won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award for Himitsu in 1999. The novel earned a good reputation, was made into a movie starring Ryoko Hirosue, and is currently being developed for a remake by Luc Besson. Higashino won the prestigious Naoki Award for Devotion of Suspect X in 2005. Among other works by him, g@me, Lakeside (Shinji Aoyama's Lakeside Murder Case) and Henshin received movie adaptations. Most recently, Byakuyako (with Takayuki Yamada) was televised.
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- The Devotion of Suspect X | Yogisha X no kenshin (2008)
- The Secret | Si j'étais toi (2007) (novel)
- The Letters | Tegami (2006) (novel)
- Henshin (2005) (novel)
- Lakeside Murder Case | Reikusaido mada kesu (2004) (novel "Lake Side")
- G@me (2003) (novel)
- Secret | Himitsu (1999) (novel)
