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The Camphorwood Custodian, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store Author Keigo Higashino Dies
The award-winning author sold more than 100 million books in Japan and had a novel scheduled for publication next month.
- Japanese mystery writer Keigo Higashino died at 68 on Thursday, July 23, from colorectal cancer, his publisher Kodansha announced in Tokyo.
- Spanning four decades, Higashino published 106 books after transitioning from an engineer at Denso to a full-time author, gaining international fame for 'The Devotion of Suspect X.'
- His domestic sales topped more than 100 million copies, and he won the Edogawa Rampo Prize for his debut 'After School' and the Naoki Prize in 2006.
- Following a private funeral, tributes appeared across Japanese social media, with novelist Naoki Hyakuta writing that Higashino was a 'truly talented writer' who understood 'what a story is.'
- Readers will receive one final work from the author, as his final Galileo novel 'Eternal Memory' is scheduled for publication on August 5, according to Kodansha.
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