About
Mangetsu Hanamura
Overview
Mangetsu Hanamura (1955–) portrays sex, violence, and religion with fierce intensity. After graduating from middle school, he rode around the country on a motorcycle, supporting himself with various jobs until 1989 when he was awarded the Shōsetsu Subaru New Writers’ Award and his literary career took off. When Hanamura was a child, his father used to force him to read literary classics written in old-style Chinese characters while inflicting physical abuse on him. After his father's death, Hanamura's behavior grew increasingly problematic and at 11 he was put in a Catholic reformatory where he suffered a number of intense episodes, some of them sexual in nature. These grueling experiences combined to make Hanamura an "outlaw" writer.
-- Books from Japan Biography
Known for
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2005 | The Whispering of the Gods | Writing | Novel | 58 Average |
1999 | Minazuki | Writing | Novel | 58 Average |
1997 | XX: Graceful Beautiful Beast | Writing | Novel | 59 Average |
1996 | Ignatius | Writing | Novel | N/A N/A |
1996 | Seraphim Night | Writing | Original Story | N/A N/A |
1994 | XX: Beautiful Hunter | Writing | Story | 59 Average |