Hideo Yokoyama

Hideo Yokoyama (横山 秀夫) is a Japanese novelist.

Yokoyama specializes in mystery novels.

He repeated his Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! No. 1 ranking in 2013 with Six Four (64).

The English edition of Six Four, translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, was shortlisted for the 2016 CWA International Dagger.

He is known for his career as journalist for the Jomo Shimbun, the regional paper in Gunma.

Novels

 * Six Four (original title: 64 Rokuyon), trans. Jonathan Lloyd-Davies (riverrun, 2016)
 * Seventeen (original title: Kuraimāzu hai [Climber's High]), trans. Louise Heal Kawai (riverrun, 2018)
 * Prefecture D (original title: Kage no Kisetsu), trans. Jonathan Lloyd-Davies (riverrun, 2019)

Short story

 * Motive (original title: Dōki), trans. Beth Cary (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 2008)

Essay

 * My Favourite Mystery, "Paradise lost in the box" by Kenji Takemoto (Mystery Writers of Japan, Inc. )

Awards and nominations

 * Japanese Awards
 * 1998 – Matsumoto Seicho Prize: "Kage no Kisetsu" (Season of Shadows)
 * 2000 – Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Short Story: "Motive"
 * 2003 – The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2003): Han'ochi (Half a Confession)
 * 2005 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Rinjō (Initial Response )
 * 2013 – The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2013): Six Four


 * UK Award
 * 2016 – Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger: Six Four

Novels

 * Deguchi no Nai Umi (出口のない海), 1996
 * Kage no Kisetsu (陰の季節), 1998
 * English translation: Prefecture D, riverrun, 2019
 * Han'ochi (半落ち), 2002
 * Kuraimāzu hai (Climber's High) (クライマーズ・ハイ), 2003
 * English translation: Seventeen, riverrun, 2018
 * Rupan no Shōsoku (ルパンの消息), 2005
 * Shindo Zero (震度0), 2005
 * Rokuyon (64), 2012
 * English translation: Six Four, riverrun, 2016
 * Nōsu Raito (North Light) (ノースライト), 2019

Short story collections

 * Dōki (動機), 2000
 * Kao (顔), 2002
 * Fukaoi (深追い), 2002
 * Shinsō (真相), 2003
 * Kagefumi (影踏み), 2003
 * Kanshugan (看守眼), 2004
 * Rinjō (臨場), 2004
 * Rinjō Special Book (臨場スペシャルブック), 2010

Film adaptations

 * Half a Confession (2004) (Han'ochi)
 * Deguchi no Nai Umi (2006)
 * Climber's High (2008) (Kuraimāzu hai)
 * Rinjō (2012)
 * Rokuyon (64) Part I (2016)
 * Rokuyon (64) Part II (2016)
 * Kagefumi (2019)