Yasumi Kobayashi is a Japanese author of horror, science fiction and mystery.
Career
In 2009, he was nominated as "Best Foreign Author" in the Chinese-language Galaxy Awards.
Achievements
His short story "The Manitoba Who Watched the Sea" won the Hayakawa Award for best short story in 1998. Two more were nominated for the Seiun Award for best short story. "Sora kara Kaze ga Yamu Toki" in 2003, and "Arakajime Kettei Sareteiru Ashita" in 2004.
The Seiun Award is a Japanese speculative fiction award for the best science fiction published in Japan during the preceding year, as voted by the participants of the annual Japan Science Fiction Convention.
The Seiun Award is a Japanese speculative fiction award for the best science fiction published in Japan during the preceding year, as voted by the participants of the annual Japan Science Fiction Convention.