Toshinari Masuda

is a Japanese novelist, critic, and visiting professor of Nagoya University of Arts.

After winning the Grand Prize for the This mystery is great! Award in 2006, he started expanding his work into other genres such as nonfiction, essays, and criticism. Later, he won the Sōichi Ōya Nonfiction Award for his work, ''Why Masahiko Kimura Didn't Kill Rikidozan''. Provided by Wikipedia