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Simon Rowe

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Rotorua, New Zealand

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https://www.mightytales.net/

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Simon Rowe has lived in Japan for more than 28 years, winning numerous awards for his short fiction and screenplays, including Good Night Papa (2013 Asian Short Screenplay Contest) and Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere (2021 Best Indie Book Award).

His stories about Japanese life and culture have appeared in The Paris Review, the New York Times, TIME (Asia), the South China Morning Post, The Straits Times, The Australian, and the Australian Financial Review

He is originally from New Zealand.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 279 ratings · 89 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mami Suzuki: Private Eye 3.83 avg rating — 162 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FLESH: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology by Cassandra Khaw (Goodreads Author) (editor), Angeline Woon (Goodreads Author) (editor), Terence Toh (Goodreads Author) 3.35 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere 4.35 avg rating — 34 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere 4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Noir Nation No. 3 - India by Gila Green (Goodreads Author), Eddie Vega (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kshemendra 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Time Another Place: A Collection of Short Stories by Monica Cook (Editor), Sarah Mokrzycki (Editor), Anna de Souza (Contributor) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zawadi & other short stories 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Travelling North: A Hitchhiker's Tale

Uramoto-san was short, in his thirties, with a buzz cut and a smile that practically broke his face in half. At eight p.m. he fired up his Fuso and told me to jump in. We would be carrying a consignment of senbei to Kōfu city in Yamanashi prefecture, he said. As we pulled out of Himeji under stormy skies, I imagined the accident scene—the cops, ambulance crew, everyone standing around munching o Read more of this blog post »

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Simon Rowe and 3 other people liked Kel's review of Malayan Spy: "Dnf"
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Simon Rowe and 1 other person liked Neysa's review of Detektif Swasta Mami Suzuki: "I must say, I am giving this particular book a rating of two out of five. To be perfectly honest, I anticipated a great deal more from this publication, but my initial high expectations were left unfulfilled as I progressed through the narrative. I b" Read more of this review »
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Simon Rowe liked Brian Pollo's review of Mami Suzuki: Private Eye: "One star ang maibibigay ko. Sobrang stereotypical japanese themes, alam mong dayuhan ang nagsulat. Dayuhang may tendency i-romanticize ang kulturang Hapon. Di ko tuloy maiwasang isipin na baka na Japan-bait lang me. Isa pa (mas mababaw and maaaring un" Read more of this review »
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“I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”
― Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life

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