
Books Jan 8, 2022
Exciting translations and books about Japan to bookmark for 2022
by Iain Maloney
From Yoko Tawada’s “Scattered All Over the Earth” to Sayaka Murata’s “Life Ceremony,” this year’s new releases are sure to brighten up your 2022.
Exciting translations and books about Japan to bookmark for 2022
From Yoko Tawada’s “Scattered All Over the Earth” to Sayaka Murata’s “Life Ceremony,” this year’s new releases are sure to brighten up your 2022.
Masatsugu Ono: ‘I always feel for those on the periphery of society’
Translator and Francophile Masatsugu Ono draws on stories of his hometown in Oita Prefecture to inform his writing.
'Lion Cross Point': A child's abandonment, cushioned by hope and quiet resolve
Lion Cross Point" is a novel of intersections: of memory and dream, past and future, rural and urban, of innocence and tragedy. Masatsugu Ono's poignant tale spins out in a child-driven stream of consciousness, unwinding from a series of shrouded traumatic events.
Novelist Masatsugu Ono has won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors, while the Naoki Prize for popular fiction has gone to writer Kanako Nishi, the selection committee said Thursday. Ono, a 44-year-old associate professor at Rikkyo University and a native of Oita Prefecture, won ...