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KIYOKO MURATA has been awarded over ten major literary awards in Japan, including the Akutagawa Prize. A Woman of Pleasure was her first book to be published in English. She lives in Fukuoka, Japan. Her latest novel, Island of the Bird-Folk won the Tanizaki Prize in 2019. Murata lives in Fukuoka, Japan. JULIET WINTERS CARPENTER was a distinguished translator of Japanese literature whose work received numerous awards. She lived in Japan for over forty-five years, then on Whidbey Island in Washington State. She died in 2026. |
