Keizo Hino (1929-2002) graduated from the University of Tokyo and went to work for the Yomiuri Shimbun, serving as reporter and special correspondent from Seoul and Saigon, while writing criticism on the side. His first published work was the 1973 short-story collection Higan no ie (House on the Other Shore), winner of the Hirabayashi Taiko Prize.

1975 Akutagawa Prize, for Ano yuhi (That Sunset)

1982 Izumi Kyoka Prize, for Hoyo (Embrace)

1993 Noma Literary Prize, for Taifu no me (The Eye of the Typhoon)