容疑者Xの献身 Yōgi sha X no Kenshin MOBI ´ sha

容疑者Xの献身 Yōgi sha X no Kenshin MOBI ´ sha 東野 圭吾 is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USABorn in Osaka he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co　presently DENSO He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work in 1985 for the novel Hōkago After School at age 27 Subseuently he uit his job and started a career as a writer in TokyoIn 1999 he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel Himitsu The Secret which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and published by Vertical under the title of Naoko in 2004 In 2006 he won the 134th Naoki Prize for Yōgisha X no Kenshin His novels had been nominated five times before winning with this novel The Devotion of Suspect X was the second highest selling book in all of Japan— fiction or nonfiction—the year it was published with over 800000 copies sold It won the prestigious Naoki Prize for Best Novel— the Japanese euivalent of the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize Made into a motion picture in Japan The Devotion of Suspect X spent 4 weeks at the top of the box office and was the third highest‐grossing film of the yearHigashino’s novels have movie and TV series adaptations than Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum and as many as Michael Crichton