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Keiichiro Hirano

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For the first time ever, RJL brings you information from an interview with a Japanese author—Akutagawa-winner Keiichiro Hirano. This episode takes up his life and work, the influence of Yukio Mishima on his fiction, and his most-recently-translated novel, Eclipse.

CW: attempted suicide in a discussion of Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

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