Hideo Furukawa (born 1966) is a Japanese novelist from Fukushima Prefecture. After leaving Waseda University's School of Literature, he made his literary debut in 1998 with "13." Known for his rhythmic prose and ambitious narrative structures, Furukawa has expanded his work beyond fiction into performance, public readings, and modern translations of Japanese classics. He received both the Mystery Writers of Japan Award and the Nihon SF Taisho Award for "Arabian Night no Shuzoku," the Mishima Yukio Prize for "LOVE," and the Noma Literary New Face Prize and Yomiuri Prize for Literature for "Onnatachi Sanbyakunin no Uragiri no Sho." Set against Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, "Arabian Night no Shuzoku" constructs stories within stories around a fictional manuscript devised to halt the invading army, combining history and fantasy in an elaborate exploration of the power of storytelling.
