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The Bees that Disappeared

Keiichiro Hirano

Translated by Paul Warham

‘It was during this period that I got to know K, one of the local mailmen.’

Keiichiro Hirano

Keiichiro Hirano, born in Aichi Prefecture in 1975 and raised in Kita-Kyushu, graduated from the Law Department of Kyoto University. His first novel, Nisshoku (L’Eclispe), was serialized in 1999 by the literary magazine Shincho; the novel went on to win the Akutagawa Prize. Hirano has since published other fiction, among them Funeral, Ripples the Dripping Clocks Make, Collapse, Dawn, The Only Form of Love, and most recently Fill in the Blanks, as well as collections of essays and interviews. His work has been translated into several languages.

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Translated by Paul Warham

Paul Warham is a Japanese-English translator with professional and academic experience across a wide range of fields. He received a PhD from Harvard University, writing a thesis on the early twentieth-century works of Japanese writer Jun'ichiro Tanizaki. His translations includes literary and popular fiction such as Kenzo Kitakata's The Cage and Atsushi Azuchi's Supermarket, the Novel, and children's literature. He has translated Kazushi Hosaka's Plainsong for JLPP.

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