Award for Garasu shoji no shiruetto (Silhouette through Frosted Glass) 1977 Yomiuri Literary Prize for collection The Sting of Death 1977 Tanizaki Prize for Hi no utsuroi (日の移ろい) 1985 Noma Literary Prize for Gyoraitei gakusei (Student on the Torpedo Boat) English translations and studies The Sting of Death and Other Stories, trans. Kathryn Sparling, Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies, University of Michigan Press, 1985. J. Philip Gabriel, Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature, University of Hawaii Press, 1999. Selected works Amami Kyōdo Kenkyukai ho (奄美鄉土硏究会報), Nase-shi : Amami Kyōdo Kenkyūkai, began in 1959. Tōhoku to Amami no mukashibanashi, 1973. Yaponeshia josetsu = Japanesia, 1977. Shimao Toshio ni yoru Shimao Toshio, Tokyo : Seidōsha, 1981. Sugiyuku toki no naka de, Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 1983. Gyoraitei gakusei, (魚雷艇 学生), Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 1985. Yumekuzu, (夢屑), Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1985. Shinʾyō hasshin, (震洋 発進), Tōkyō : Ushio Shuppansha, 1987. Kimushi, (記夢志), Tōkyō : Chūsekisha, 1993. References External links Synopsis of The Sting of Death (Novel) at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) 1917 births 1986 deaths People from Yokohama Japanese writers Kyushu University alumni Japanese Roman Catholics Converts to Roman Catholicism Yomiuri Prize winners Christian novelists