Yasutaka Tsutsui is a novelist, playwright, literary critic, actor and musician. After graduating from Doshisha University in art and aesthetics, he founded the science fiction magazine NULL. During the seventies he began experimenting with different literary forms though he achieved great recognition as a science fiction author. In the summer of 1993, Tsutsui said it stopped writing in response to the lynching that had been in the press for a protest made by Epileptic Association of Japan because of certain expressions of epilepsy that appeared in one of his stories. In protest against the lack of freedom of expression refused to publish in his country, becoming the first Japanese ciberescritor internet having been for a long time the only way to read their stories.
His prolific work has won many important awards: in 1981, Izumi Kyoka Prize for "Kyojin-Tachi" (imaginary people); in 1987, the Tanizaki prize for "Yumenokizaka-Bunkiten" (The Yumenokizaka intersection); in 1989, the prize Kawabata 'Koka Yoppa ene-dani "(The descent into Valle Yoppa); and, in 1992, the Japan Prize for CF "Asa no Gasuparu" (Gaspar Morning). In 1997 he was appointed by the French Government 'Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. "