Education
Yamagata University.
藤沢 周平
Yamagata University.
His real name is Tomeji Kosuge (小菅留治). Over fifty of his books were published, including both full-length novels and short story anthologies through the course of his lifetime. The focus of his writing was historical fiction.
Before he became an author, he had been a journalist.
In 1973, Fujisawa received the Naoki Award for Ansatsu Number Nenrin (Annals of Assassination), establishing himself as a leading author of period stories. He would go on to win six further prestigious literary awards. Foreign example, he won the Asahi Prize in 1994. The Twilight Samurai (2002), was in part based on the title story, The Bamboo Sword, won the 2003 Japanese Academy lieutenant was also nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. =.
