Koji Suzuki

Koji Suzuki (鈴木 光司) is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring novels, which have been adapted into other formats, including films, manga, TV series and video games. He has written several books on the subject of fatherhood. His hobbies include traveling and motorcycling.

Ring series

 * Ring trilogy and extended series
 * Ring (Ringu) (1991)
 * Spiral (Rasen) (1995)
 * Loop (Rupu) (1998)
 * Birthday (1999) (Short story collection)
 * "Coffin in the Sky" [details what happened to Mai Takano in Spiral]
 * "Lemon Heart" [prequel to Ring]
 * "Happy Birthday" [a direct epilogue to Loop]
 * S (2012)
 * Tide (2013)
 * Manga series
 * Sadako-san and Sadako-chan (2019)
 * Sadako at the End of the World (2020)

Standalone novels

 * Paradise (Rakuen) (1990)
 * The Shining Sea (Hikari sasu umi) (1993)
 * republished – The Shining Sea (2022 Vertical Publishing) – ISBN 978-1647291181
 * Promenade of the Gods (Kamigami no Promenade) (2003)
 * Edge (2008)

Short story collections

 * Death and the Flower (1995)
 * "Disposable Diapers and a Race Replica"
 * "Irregular Breathing"
 * "Key West"
 * "Beyond the Darkness"
 * "Embrace"
 * "Avidya"
 * Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara) (1996) (includes an original framing story)
 * "Floating Water"
 * "Solitary Isle"
 * "The Hold"
 * "Dream Cruise"
 * "Adrift"
 * "Watercolors"
 * "Forest Under the Sea"

Short story

 * "Drop" (2009) – Printed on three rolls of toilet paper in Japan in Japanese and in English in 2012.

Films adapted from his works

 * Ring (Ringu, a.k.a. Ringu: Kanzenban) (1995)
 * Ring (Ringu) (1998)
 * Rasen (Spiral) (1998)
 * The Ring Virus (1999)
 * Ring 2 (Ringu 2) (1999)
 * Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
 * Dark Water (2002)
 * The Ring (2002)
 * Dark Water (2005)
 * Rings (short film) (2005)
 * The Ring Two (2005)
 * Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)
 * Masters of Horror (TV, episode 2.13 Dream Cruise) (2007)
 * Sadako 3D (2012)
 * Sadako 3D 2 (2013)
 * Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
 * Rings (2017)
 * Sadako aka Sadako KOL (2019)
 * Sadako DX (2022) DX is an acronym of sorts for digital transformation

Japanese awards

 * 1990 Japan Fantasy Novel Award: Paradise
 * 1996 Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers: Spiral
 * 1996 Nominee for Naoki Prize: Dark Water
 * 1996 Nominee for Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature: Dark Water
 * 1998 Nominee for Japanese SF Award: Loop

U.S. award

 * 2012 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel: Edge

International award

 * 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement