Tomoyuki Hoshino

Tomoyuki Hoshino is a novelist and essayist who has won most of the major literary prizes in Japan, including the Bungei Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and the Ōe Kenzaburō Prize. Honō (焰) [The Fire], the collection from which this story is taken, won the Tanizaki Prize in 2018.