Books (selection) Kōgai e (郊外へ, "To the Suburbs"), 1995 Shigosen wo motomete (子午線を求めて, "In Search of the Meridian"), 2000 Kakareru te (書かれる手, "The Hand Which is Written"), 2000 1999 Mishima Prize for Oparavan Toshiyuki Horie (堀江 敏幸 Horie Toshiyuki, born January 3, 1964) is a Japanese author and translator. His books have been translated into French and Korean. Horie, who is also a member of many literary prize selection committees, is a critic and translator of authors including Michel Foucault, Hervé Guibert, Michel Rio, and Jacques Réda. He studied for three years at the University of Paris III on a French government scholarship. Horie was born in Gifu Prefecture, and studied at Waseda University, where he now is a professor of creative writing. Across these ruminative stories, Horie suddenly drops in moments of piercing wisdom and revelation, revealing that, for better or worse, there is no escape from one’s memory.Toshiyuki Horie (堀江 敏幸 Horie Toshiyuki, born January 3, 1964) is a Japanese author and translator. In the final story, “In the Old Castle,” one man’s memory of his youthful transgression of breaking and entering turns into an allegory about the force of fear itself. The narrator’s response, “Is there anyone else?” reveals the theme that while some things wash away, the connections that remain become anchors. While reminiscing, the narrator suggests that they travel with her child to places he’d written about to his dying friend. In “The Sandman is Coming,” a man visits the seaside with his dead friend’s sister. In the title story, a translator travels to a remote village in Normandy to visit an old friend and finds serendipitous connections to the people, places, and stories he encounters. Horie weaves fables out of everyday existence in these three captivating tales of relationships and lives revisited.
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