# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenta-nishimura
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:57:34.054Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenta-nishimura"
name: "Kenta Nishimura"
slug: "kenta-nishimura"
description: "Kenta Nishimura  was a Japanese novelist. He was awarded the 2010 Akutagawa Prize for the novel Kueki Ressha (苦役列車). Having dropped out of school at fifteen, Nishimura's lack of formal education and candidness concerning his lifestyle has drawn media attention."
tagline: "Japanese novelist and writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-07-12"
deathDate: "2022-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.28
  momentum:             2.883212778776367
  historical:           10.17495733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4799531/"
    handle:    "nm4799531"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%91%E8%B3%A2%E5%A4%AA"
    title: "西村賢太"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "كينتا نيشيمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenta_Nishimura"
    title: "Kenta Nishimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenta_Nishimura"
    title: "Kenta Nishimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenta_Nishimura"
    title: "Kenta Nishimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenta_Nishimura"
    title: "Kenta Nishimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%91%E8%B3%A2%E5%A4%AA"
    title: "西村賢太"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%88%EC%8B%9C%EB%AC%B4%EB%9D%BC_%EA%B2%90%ED%83%80"
    title: "니시무라 겐타"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Нисимура, Кэнта"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336681"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1133060"
    title: "Kenta Nishimura"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump