Higashino Keigo was born in 1958, Osaka of Japan. He was born in a poor family with two elder siblings, parents running a small grocery. He’s built up his interest in reading when he was studying in the Osaka Prefecture University, and this was the start of his writing journey. Given that he finished his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and worked as an engineer before his full-time writing career, it is no surprise that physics knowledge and strict logic becomes the signature of Higashino style. (UP/CLOSED, n.d.)
Dr. Manabu Yukawa, the protagonist of Detective Galileo, is set as a professor in Physics
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1981, Higashino started to write fiction after work, aiming the annual Edogawa Rampo Prize (a literary award for unpublished mystery fictions). He finally won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1985 with After School, a novel set up in high school background. This became the turning point when the 27-year-old engineer decided to quit his job to devote his entire time into writing his crime fictions (Books from Japan, n.d.).
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In 1999, Higashino won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award with the work Naoko; gradually making his path to professional author. 2006, he grabbed the attention of the whole entire Japanese literature with The Devotion of Suspect X. That year, Suspect X won the Naoki Prize, the 6th Mystery ga sugoi! and Honkaku Mystery best 10 at the same time. His achievement was first recognized internationally when Suspect X was translated into English for the nomination for Berry Award and Edgar Award in 2012.
After that, Higashino came to the eye of the public. Most of his works have an adaptation of comics or TV drama. Recently, his work kept being adapted into movies, examples including Detective Galileo: Devotion of Suspect X, Detective Galileo: The Midsummer Equation, Journey Under the Midnight Sun, Platinum Data, and the latest one Witch of Laplace (UP/CLOSED, n.d.).
Journey Under the Midnight Sun 
Witch of Laplace
Detective Galileo: The Midsummer Equation 
The Chinese film adaptation of Detective Galileo
2009 to 2013, Higashino took up the post of president of Mystery Writers of Japan. The influence and achievement of Higashino Keigo towards the Japanese mystery literature are enough said (Los Angeles Review of Books, n.d.).
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