![]() Gr 10 Up-Two short stories expand the inner lives and past histories of characters originally appearing in the Japanese novel Battle Royale (Viz, 1999). Takami is currently working on his second novel. In 2000, Battle Royale was serialized as a comic and made into a feature film.Mr. With its publication in Japan in 1999, though, Battle Royale received widespread support, particularly from young readers, and became a bestseller. Battle Royale, completed after Takami left the news company, was rejected in the final round of a literary competition sponsored by a major publisher due to the critical controversy it provoked among jury members. Although he has an English teaching certificate, he has yet to visit the United States. ![]() ![]() From 1991 to 1996, he worked for the prefectural news company Shikoku Shihnbun, reporting on various fields including politics, police reports, and economics. ![]() ![]() After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in literature, he dropped out of Nihon University's liberal arts correspondence program. Koushun Takami was born in 1969 in Amagasaki near Osaka and grew up in Kagawa Prefecture of Shikoku, where he currently resides. ![]()
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