About

Known credits:
6
Birthday:
1955-02-05
Place of birth:
Tokyo, Japan
Website:
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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

Writing

2005 The Whispering of the Gods Writing Novel 58
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1999 Minazuki Writing Novel 58
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1997 XX: Graceful Beautiful Beast Writing Novel 59
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1996 Ignatius Writing Novel N/A
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1996 Seraphim Night Writing Original Story N/A
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1994 XX: Beautiful Hunter Writing Story 59
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