Tetsushi Suwa

is a Japanese writer from Nagoya, Aichi. He was awarded the 137th Akutagawa Prize in 2007 for Asatte no Hito (アサッテの人, "The person of the day after tomorrow").

Early life Suwa was born in Nagoya in 1969, and grew up both there and in Sendai. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Kokugakuin University in Tokyo.

Writing career Suwa’s debut novel, Asatte no hito (, Lit. The Day-after-tomorrow Man, usually translated into English as “A Distracted Man”) gained him immediate interest, winning the 137th Akutagawa Prize for 2007. The novel was first published in the literary magazine Gunzo, and won the magazine’s Gunzo Prize for New Writers the same year.

Since then, Suwa has gone on to publish several other novels.

Works

Asatte no hito Asatte no hito (A Distracted Man) was Suwa’s debut novel. The title refers to the protagonist, an eccentric middle-aged man who is constantly distracted and lives his life outside of the usual rules of society. having decided to write a book about it.