Toshiyuki Horie

Toshiyuki Horie (堀江 敏幸, Horie Toshiyuki, born January 3, 1964) is a Japanese author and translator.
Horie was born in Gifu Prefecture, and studied at Waseda University, where he now is a professor of creative writing. He studied for three years at the University of Paris III on a French government scholarship.
Horie, who is also a member of many literary prize selection committees, is a critic and translator of authors including Michel Foucault, Hervé Guibert, Michel Rio, and Jacques Réda.
His books have been translated into French and Korean.

• Kōgai e (郊外へ, "To the Suburbs"), 1995
• Shigosen wo motomete (子午線を求めて, "In Search of the Meridian"), 2000
• Kakareru te (書かれる手, "The Hand Which is Written"), 2000

• 1999 Mishima Yukio Prize for Oparavan (おぱらばん)
• 2001 Akutagawa Prize for Kuma no shikiishi (The Bear And The Paving Stone, 熊の敷石)
• 2004 Tanizaki Prize for Yukinuma to sono shūhen (Yukinuma and Its Environs, 雪沼とその周辺)
• 2005 Yomiuri Prize for Kagan bōjitsushō
• 2010 Yomiuri Prize, Section for Essay & Travelogue, for Seigen Kyokusen (正弦曲線, "Sine Curve")
• 2012 Sei Itō Literary Prize for Nazuna (なずな)
• 2013 Mainichi Book Review Prize for Furiko de kotoba wo saguru yō ni (振り子で言葉を探るように, "Like Fumbling for Words with a Pendulum")