いしいしんじ(1966年生まれ)は、大阪府出身の小説家。京都大学文学部仏文学科を卒業し、1994年に『アムステルダムの犬』でデビューした。現実の町におとぎ話のような出来事を織り込み、風変わりな人物たちが抱える孤独や喪失を、ユーモアと音楽的なリズムを備えた文章で描いている。『ある一日』で織田作之助賞、『悪声』で河合隼雄物語賞を受賞した。代表作『麦ふみクーツェ』は坪田譲治文学賞受賞作で、音楽に夢中な祖父、素数に取りつかれた父と暮らす体の大きな少年が、不思議な足音を立てるクーツェの気配を感じながら、港町で起こる悲劇や人々との出会いを通して音楽家を目指す過程を描いた。
Shinji Ishii (born 1966) is a Japanese novelist from Osaka. After graduating from Kyoto University, where he studied French literature, he made his literary debut in 1994 with "Amusuterudamu no Inu." His fiction introduces fairy-tale events into recognizable towns and depicts the loneliness and loss experienced by unconventional characters through prose marked by humor and musical rhythm. He received the Oda Sakunosuke Prize for "Aru Ichinichi" and the Kawai Hayao Story Prize for "Akugoe." His representative novel, "Mugifumi Kūtsē," won the Tsubota Joji Literary Prize and follows an unusually large boy who lives with a music-obsessed grandfather and a father fascinated by prime numbers, senses the mysterious footsteps of Kūtsē, and pursues a life in music amid tragedy and unexpected encounters in a port town.
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