Haruki Murakami: Writing in a parallel universe, connecting with a global readership
In Japan, it was the runaway best-seller status of "Norwegian Wood" (1987), his wistful tale of crushed innocence and young love that sold more than 4 million copies in Japanese alone, that established Murakami's iconic status.
In its seventh year, Monkey Business seen creating hybrid space for Japanese, English literature
The literary journal Monkey Business unveils its seventh annual issue this month, with a launch tour in Boston and New York, bringing innovative writing from Japan to a U.S. publishing landscape that has comparatively little space for translated literature. Founded in 2011 by editors Motoyuki ...
Novelist and former Upper House lawmaker Akiyuki Nosaka, best known for his award-winning "Grave of the Fireflies," died Wednesday at a hospital in Tokyo due to heart failure, police sources said Thursday. He was 85. Nosaka had been undergoing rehabilitation after a stroke in 2003. After ...
Novelist EnJoe given special citation by Philip K. Dick sci-fi award
Novelist Toh EnJoe was awarded a special citation from the administrators of the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award for science fiction published in the United States, his publisher said Saturday. The English translation of EnJoe's 2007 debut work "Self-Reference Engine," published in the United States ...
Crime writer brings Tokyo noir to the world
Crime novelist Fuminori Nakamura might be a self-described pessimist with a dark personality, but one thing he's never had to worry about is writer's block. "I'm bursting with story ideas. It's not a talent, it's more like a disease," he told a small gathering through ...
