Hiroshi Ogiwara (born 1956) is a Japanese novelist and manga artist from Saitama Prefecture. After graduating from Seijo University’s Faculty of Economics, he worked for an advertising production company and as a freelance copywriter. He made his literary debut in 1997 after "Ororo Batake de Tsukamaete" received the Shosetsu Subaru New Writers’ Award. He later won the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize for "Ashita no Kioku" and the Yamada Futaro Prize for "Nisen Nanahyaku no Natsu to Fuyu." His representative work, "Umi no Mieru Rihatsuten," received the Naoki Prize. Its six stories portray a young man visiting a seaside barbershop, an estranged mother and daughter, and a couple grieving the loss of their child, tracing the secrets, regrets, separations, and reunions that shape family relationships.
