Ryūzō Saki | |||||
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Native name | 佐木 隆三 | ||||
Born | Ryozo Kosaki April 14, 1937 Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province, Korea under Japanese rule | ||||
Died | October 31, 2015 Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan | (aged 78)||||
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Language | Japanese | ||||
Genre | Non-fiction novel | ||||
Years active | 1961–2015 | ||||
Notable works | Vengeance is Mine (復讐するは我にあり, Fukushū suru wa Ware ni ari) | ||||
Notable awards | 74th Naoki Prize | ||||
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Kanji | 佐木 隆三 | ||||
Kana | さき りゅうぞう | ||||
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Ryūzō Saki (佐木 隆三, Saki Ryūzō, April 14, 1937 – October 31, 2015) [1] was a Japanese novelist and non-fiction writer, born in North Hamgyong, a province of what is now North Korea. [2] He was interested in high-profile crimes in Japan and published a number of non-fiction books about Japanese crimes. [2]
On January 14, 1976, Saki was awarded the Naoki Prize for the novel Vengeance Is Mine based on Japanese serial killer Akira Nishiguchi. [2] The novel became the basis of Shohei Imamura's film Vengeance Is Mine. [3] He also wrote the books about Norio Nagayama, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Fusako Sano and Futoshi Matsunaga.
In 1992, Saki published a book about Japanese Resident-General of Korea Itō Hirobumi and Korean An Jung-geun, titled Itō Hirobumi to An Jung-geun. [4]
On 1 November 2015, he died from throat cancer in Kitakyūshū at age 78. [1]