Junichi Watanabe

was a Japanese writer.

Biography Jun'ichi Watanabe was born in Kamisunagawa, Hokkaido, Japan. He published his first works while still studying at Sapporo Medical University, where he graduated in 1958. He gained wide attention with a series of sexually explicit novels, including the 1997 bestseller A Lost Paradise, which was made into a film and a TV miniseries.

Works in English translation 1969: Invitation to Suicide (Jisatsu no susume). In: Autumn Wind and Other Stories 1970: Beyond the Blossoming Fields (Hanauzumi) 1997: A Lost Paradise (Shitsurakuen) 2009: Beyond the Blossoming Fields(Deborah Iwabuchi, Anna Isozaki)

Works in French translation 2021:Château Rouge(Kenzo Suzuki, Dominique Sylvain)

Works in Spanish translation 2009: Ginko. La Primera Doctora (Seix Barral)

Awards 1965 (Showa 40) - 12th Shincho Literary Award - "Death Makeup" 1970 (Showa 45) - 63rd Naoki Prize - "Light and Shadow" 1979 (Showa 54) - 14th Yoshikawa Eiji Literature Award - "Distant Setting Sun" and "Nagasaki Russian Courtesan Hall" 1983 (Showa 58) - 48th Bungeishunju Reader's Award - "Voice of Silence: The Life of Mrs. Nogi Nokibe" 2003 Order of the Sacred Treasure, Purple Ribbon 2001 Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon (Iceland, October 16, 2001): Presented at the opening of the Embassy of Iceland in Japan.