Masahiko Shimada
Biography
Masahiko Shimada is a Japanese writer born in 1961. He won the 6th Noma Literary New Face Prize for his novel Muyū ōkoku no tame no ongaku (夢遊王国のための音楽, Music for the Kingdom of Somnambulism) and was praised by critics such as Julia Just in her review of Yumetsukai. Shimada has also received awards including the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award.