PROFILE NOTE
Honobu Yonezawa
Novelist / mystery writer
Honobu Yonezawa is a Japanese novelist and mystery writer from Gifu Prefecture, and a graduate of Kanazawa University.
In 2001, Hyouka received an honorable mention in the Young Mystery & Horror category of the 5th Kadokawa School Novel Award, becoming the beginning of the Classics Club series.
His work ranges from school-life mysteries to historical mysteries, short-story collections, and more socially shaded novels. Major awards include the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize, the Yamada Futaro Prize, and the Naoki Prize.