#北上次郎 #日本ハードボイルド全集７ :9784488400279

**"An essayist with a unique discerning eye"**
Koji Meguro is known as a Japanese essayist, literary critic, and editor. He used pen names such as Jiro Kitakami and Saburo Fujishiro, and was a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan. In the early days, he used different pen names for each genre, but later Gunichiro's "Gun" was given to Makoto Shiina in connection with his debut.
He was born in Tokyo and graduated from Meiji University's Faculty of Literature. Until 2000, he served as the publisher of "Hon no Zasshi" (Book Magazine). In 2011, he became the first honorary director of the "Makoto Shiina Traveling Literature Museum." His hobby was horse racing; on weekdays, he would stay at the book magazine company to read and write, and on weekends, he would frequent racetracks.
**Representative works and awards**
He is known for primarily reviewing adventure novels. In 1984, he won the Japan Adventure Novel Association Grand Prize for Best Criticism for "The Age of Adventure Novels," and in 1994, he received the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in the Criticism and Other Categories for "Adventure Novel Theory: 100 Years of Changes in the Image of Modern Heroes."
**Q&A**
Q: What kind of person was he?
A: As an essayist with a unique discerning eye, he contributed to critical activities centered on adventure novels.
Q: What are his famous works?
A: His representative work is "The Age of Adventure Novels," which had a significant impact on the world of adventure novels.
English Summary
**"An essayist with a unique eye"**
Koji Meguro is known as a Japanese essayist, literary critic, and editor. He used pen names such as Jiro Kitakami and Saburo Fujishiro, and was a member of the Japan Mystery Writers Association. In the early days, different pen names were used for each genre, but later Gunichiro's "Gun" was given to Makoto Shiina in connection with his debut.
He was born in Tokyo and graduated from Meiji University's Faculty of Letters. Until 2000, he served as the publisher of Book Magazine. In 2011, he became the first honorary director of the Makoto Shiina Traveling Literature Museum. His hobby was horse racing, and on weekdays he would stay at a book magazine company to read and write, and on weekends he would go to racetracks.
**Representative works and awards**
He is known for mainly reviewing adventure novels. In 1984, he won the Japan Adventure Novel Association Grand Prize for Best Criticism for ``The Age of Adventure Novels,'' and in 1994, he won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award for Criticism and Other Category for ``Adventure Novel Theory: 100 Years of Changes in the Image of Modern Heroes.''
**Q&A**
Q: What did you do?
As an essayist with a unique perspective, I contributed to critical activities centered on adventure novels.
Q: What are your famous works?
His most famous work is ``The Age of Adventure Novel'', which had a great influence on the world of adventure novels.
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