Mikihiko Renjō

was a Japanese writer, winner of the Naoki Prize. He was also an ordained priest within the Ōtani-ha branch of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism.

Life He was born in Nagoya, and graduated from the Political Economy Department of Waseda University. He studied writing screenplays in Paris, France, and made his debut in 1978 with Henchō nininbaori. In 2009 he was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He died, after the cancer also spread to the liver, on October 19, 2013.

Awards 1978 – Gen'eijō New Writers Award for "Henchō Nininbaori" (short story) 1981 – Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Short Story for "Modorigawa Shinjū" 1984 – Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers for Yoimachigusa Yojō (short story collection) 1984 – Naoki Prize for Koibumi (short story collection) 1996 – Shibata Renzaburō Award for Kakuregiku (novel)