2021: What is the Future of Japanese Literature?
With Japanese literature in translation finally breaching feminist frontiers, what’s next?
With Japanese literature in translation finally breaching feminist frontiers, what’s next?
Looking back at the Japanese literary icon 30 years after the translation of her debut novel ‘Kitchen’
Kanji Hanawa divulges society’s absurdity in two translated novellas
David Boyd translates Oyamada’s surreal novel of transformation and isolation
Fifty years after his death, Yukio Mishima is reemerging in translation
Mieko Kawakami’s intimate portrait of womanhood in ‘Breasts and Eggs’
‘Convenience Store Woman’ author Sayaka Murata on breaking norms
Power and metaphor in ‘The Memory Police’
And almost all of them are written by women
The best contemporary female authors with English translated novels