WRITER

Shinichi Hoshi

1926 - 1997

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Shin’ichi Hoshi (星 新一 Hoshi Shin'ichi, September 6, 1926 – December 30, 1997) was a Japanese novelist and science fiction writer best known for his "short-short" science fiction stories, often no more than three or four pages in length, of which he wrote over 1000. He also wrote mysteries and won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Mōsō Ginkō (Delusion Bank) in 1968. One of his short stories, "Bokko-chan" ("Miss Bokko"), was translated into English and published in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in June 1963. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shinichi Hoshi has received more than 92,616 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Shinichi Hoshi is the 3,976th most popular writer (down from 3,794th in 2019), the 1,075th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,004th in 2019) and the 88th most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 93k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Buranko no mukō de
1978
Dekisokonai hakubutsukan
1979
Bokko-chan ; Dokoka no jiken
1979
The spiteful planet
Fiction, Japanese Science fiction, Social life and customs
1978
Meiji, chichi, Amerika
Family, Biography
1975
Kimagure robotto
Japanese Short stories
1972
Bokko-chan ; Dokoka no jiken
1979
Bonbon to akuma
1974
Dekisokonai hakubutsukan
1979
Bokko-chan ; Dokoka no jiken
1979
Buranko no mukō de
1978
Kimagure robotto
Japanese Short stories
1972
Meiji, chichi, Amerika
Family, Biography
1975
Kimagure robotto
Japanese Short stories
1972
Bonbon to akuma
1974
Meiji, chichi, Amerika
Family, Biography
1975
Dekisokonai hakubutsukan
1979
Buranko no mukō de
1978

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Shinichi Hoshi ranks 3,976 out of 7,302. Before him are Lino Aldani, Philipp Nicolai, Claribel Alegría, Palaephatus, Elena Văcărescu, and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. After him are Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Irena Veisaitė, Simonas Daukantas, Emmy Hennings, Titus Calpurnius Siculus, and Lady Ise.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Shinichi Hoshi ranks 261. Before him are Sven Axbom, Robert Ballaman, Alina Szapocznikow, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Pascual Pérez, and Lino Aldani. After him are Ian Paisley, Carl Adam Petri, Maneca, William Porter, Ri Kun-mo, and Ljubiša Spajić. Among people deceased in 1997, Shinichi Hoshi ranks 177. Before him are John Akii-Bua, Myrtle Bachelder, Tony Williams, Afonsinho, William Hickey, and Tete Montoliu. After him are Billy Bremner, Juan Burgueño, Heikki A. Alikoski, Tamara Tyshkevich, Bozorg Alavi, and James Krüss.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shinichi Hoshi ranks 1,075 out of 6,245. Before him are Shoji Nishio (1927), Takayuki Kuwata (1941), Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), Minoru Chiaki (1917), Sion Sono (1961), and Kenichi Ohmae (1943). After him are Haruhiko Kuroda (1944), Tadahiko Ueda (1947), Kanō Tan'yū (1602), Goro Yamada (1894), Miyuki Nakajima (1952), and Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Shinichi Hoshi ranks 88. Before him are Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), Jien (1155), Natsuo Kirino (1951), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), and Michitsuna's mother (935). After him are Hiromi Kawakami (1958), Miyamoto Yuriko (1899), Masuji Ibuse (1898), Yōko Ogawa (1962), Yoshiki Tanaka (1952), and Saneatsu Mushanokōji (1885).

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