Hideo Okuda

Hideo Okuda was born in 1959. His first novel was published in 1998 after he worked as a magazine editor, planner, and copywriter. He is now one of the most popular authors of entertainment novels in Japan, known for his comical portrayals of people at all levels of society.

In 2002, he won the Oyabu Haruhiko Award for hardboiled and adventure novels for JAMA (Annoyance), and in 2004, he won the Naoki Prize (Japanese equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize) for Kuchu Buranko (The Flying Trapeze).

Books by Hideo Okuda

Lala Pipo

Hideo Okuda

"This sleazy novel is not recommendable for ladies or gentlemen." So reads the jacket of the Japanese edition of this collection of inter-related short stories dealing with the themes of desire, inadequacy, and failure, using the dark underbelly of sex as its canvas.