Keigo Higashino graduated from osaka prefecture university Ministry of Engineering, majoring in electrical engineering, and joined Denso after graduating from university.
As a technical engineer majoring in electrical engineering, how did he become a professional novelist?
Shortly after Dongye joined Denso Japan, he often made all kinds of small mistakes in his work and made no achievements in his profession. Although there is no technical breakthrough in the research department. He couldn't find a sense of pleasure and accomplishment in his major and began to consider changing careers.
198 1 One day, while visiting the bookstore, Dongye accidentally turned to the random step award-winning work "Atomic Furnace Killing Event" and saw the selection and submission of the random step award at the back of the book. He has known about Chaos Award for a long time, but he doesn't know how to take part in the competition. Now that he knows how to contribute, he is determined to give it a try.
Dongye believes that writing novels costs nothing and can be done while working. If you can win the prize, you may make a lot of money. If you become a novelist, you can go back to Osaka. Maybe you can afford a house. In short, there is no harm in doing so, and there is no reason not to be a novelist.
After that, Dongye took the Edogawa Random Step Award as the goal and used his spare time after work to write novels every day.
1983, Dongye applied for the 29th Random Step Award with "Our Doll's Home" and entered the second round of pre-selection.
1984, Dongye applied for the 30th Random Step Award with Magic Ball and was shortlisted.
1985 won the 3 1 Edogawa Random Step Award for his campus youth mystery novel After School, and officially debuted. In the second year after winning the prize, Dongye resolutely resigned and went to Tokyo to officially start his career as a professional writer.
Dongye's early creative path was not smooth. Although his After School won the Edogawa Ramp Award, its sales volume was not impressive. In the next ten years, the sales of novels created by Dongye were quite deserted.
It can be said that he was in the groping stage of writing during this period. The works created are either not bought by readers or criticized by critics, and few people pay attention to them.
However, since Dongye quit his stable job in Osaka and came to Tokyo, he has no way out. No matter what setbacks he encounters, he can only choose to move forward. During this period, Dongye wrote almost everything as long as he had the opportunity to write. A reporter once interviewed the writing mood during this period, and he replied:
Dongye tried many new breakthroughs and tried his best to attract the attention of readers and literary circles.
Fortunately, Dongye didn't take this road for too long, and the transformation made him a great success. He constantly reflected on his works, and gradually developed many original and even experimental directions from his early works centered on tricks. He finally concluded that:
When we carefully read Keigo Higashino's best-selling works, we will find that almost all of them revolve around the mystery of human heart and social structure. Many works are presented to readers in the most concise way with his own familiar science and engineering themes after decomposition and combination.
Based on this reasoning, Dongye's writing tendency with the theme of science, technology and man-made led him to win various awards in his later works, such as The Dedication of Suspect X, and was officially listed as a "well-known bestseller", which finally made his writer career blossom in the past 20 years and created a rare miracle in Japanese mystery literature in recent years.