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**「死を美しく見せる力を持つ作家」**
玄侑 宗久（げんゆう そうきゅう、1956年 - ）は、日本の小説家、臨済宗の僧侶。福島県在住。東日本大震災復興構想会議委員。
小説を書く前は、ナイトクラブのフロアマネージャーなどをしていた。1983年にヨガ道場に訪れ参禅し、3年後退山。その後神戸や山梨を行脚して帰郷し、1991年に結婚。2000年から小説家として活動し、「水の舳先」で芥川賞候補作となり、その翌年の「中陰の花」で第125回芥川賞を受賞。
映画化された作品に『アブラクサスの祭』があり、2011年に東日本大震災復興構想会議委員に選出され、新潟薬科大学客員教授となった。また、「たまきはる福島基金」理事長や京都大学こころの未来研究センター連携委員を務める。
著作リスト
* 小説『水の舳先』
* 小説『中陰の花』
* 小説『アブラクサスの祭』
* 小説『化蝶散華』
**Q&A**
Q：何をされた方ですか？
A：東日本大震災復興構想会議委員として、福島県に影響を与えたこと。
Q：有名な作品は何ですか？
A：「中陰の花」です。小説家として初めて芥川賞を受賞したことがきっかけとなり、現在では「死を美しく見せる力を持つ作家」と言われているが、その作品で最も有名とされるのは「アブラクサスの祭」です。
English Summary
**"A writer who has the power to make death look beautiful"**
Genyu Sokyuu (born 1956) is a Japanese novelist and Rinzai sect monk. Lives in Fukushima Prefecture. Member of the Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Planning Council.
Before writing novels, he worked as a floor manager at a nightclub. In 1983, he visited a yoga dojo to practice Zen meditation, and retired three years later. After that, they went on a pilgrimage to Kobe and Yamanashi, returned home, and got married in 1991. He has been active as a novelist since 2000, and was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize for ``The Prow of Water,'' and won the 125th Akutagawa Prize the following year for ``Chuin no Hana.''
One of his works was ``Abraxas Festival'', which was made into a movie, and in 2011 he was selected as a member of the Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Planning Committee and became a visiting professor at Niigata Pharmaceutical University. He also serves as the chairman of the Tamakiharu Fukushima Fund and a member of the Kyoto University Mind Future Research Center Collaboration Committee.
List of works
* Novel “The Bow of the Water”
* Novel “Chukin no Hana”
* Novel "Festival of Abraxas"
* Novel “Bachosanka”
**Q&A**
Q: What did you do?
Having had an impact on Fukushima Prefecture as a member of the Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Planning Council.
Q: What are your famous works?
It's a "flower in the middle shade." He became the first novelist to win the Akutagawa Prize, and is now said to be a writer who has the power to make death look beautiful, but his most famous work is ``The Festival of Abraxas''.
Wikipedia:玄侑宗久