Strange Weather in Tokyo

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND THE TRANSLATOR

HIROMI KAWAKAMI is one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists. She was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1996 for A Snake Stepped On (Hebi o fumu). Her novel Strange Weather in Tokyo (Sensei no kaban) was short-listed for both the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and has been translated into thirteen languages. Manazuru won the 2011 Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize.

ALLISON MARKIN POWELL is a literary translator, editor, and publishing consultant. She has translated works by Osamu Dazai, Fuminori Nakamura, and Kanako Nishi. She lives in New York City, and maintains the database www.japaneseliteratureinenglish.com.