# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otaro-maijo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:05:12.852Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otaro-maijo"
name: "Ōtarō Maijō"
slug: "otaro-maijo"
description: "Ōtarō Maijō  is a Japanese novelist from Fukui Prefecture. Winner of the 19th Mephisto Prize for Smoke, Soil, or Sacrifices, and the 16th Mishima Yukio Prize for Asura Girl. His short story, \"Drill Hole in the Brain\" was translated into English as part of Del Rey's Faust anthology, and described by the Anime News Network as the \"crowning glory\" of the anthology."
tagline: "Japanese writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1973"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.696449333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/tsuiyotsuitaro"
    handle:    "tsuiyotsuitaro"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%88%9E%E5%9F%8E%E7%8E%8B%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "舞城王太郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "أوتارو ميجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "اوتارو ميجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ctar%C5%8D_Maij%C5%8D"
    title: "Ōtarō Maijō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ctar%C5%8D_Maij%C5%8D"
    title: "Ōtarō Maijō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%88%9E%E5%9F%8E%E7%8E%8B%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "舞城王太郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%EC%A1%B0_%EC%98%A4%ED%83%80%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "마이조 오타로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q842534"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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