Otsuichi (Hirotaka Adachi)

Otsuichi, whose real name is Hirotaka Adachi, was born on October 21, 1978, in Fukuoka, Japan. He is a Japanese novelist, screenwriter, and director. He made his debut at 17 with Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse, which won the JUMP Novel Award, and in 2003 he received the Honkaku Mystery Award for GOTH. He also writes under pen names such as Eiichi Nakata and Asako Yamashiro. In the Chinese book market, his works are often categorized as classics, mystery and suspense, and foreign literature. The library holds 13 of his titles, including the three-volume Otsuichi short-story collection, The Maid's Strange Tales: A Short Story Collection Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of Otsuichi's Debut, the four-volume Genius Writer Otsuichi's Short Story Collection, Zoo, Lonely Frequency, Love from a Sunken Ship, and The Monster I Created II. He is known for blending eerie imagination and delicate emotion into mystery and suspense frameworks, with a distinctive narrative pace and atmosphere.