Shunmyō Masuno is a Japanese monk and garden designer. He is chief priest of the Sōtō Zen temple Kenkō-ji, professor at Tama Art University, and president of a de…
1972년 서울 출생. 서울대 분자생물학과를 졸업하고 동 대학원에서 석사과정을 마쳤다. 대학을 졸업 후 얼마간의 직장생활을 거쳤으며, 1998년부터 소설을 쓰기 시작했다. 2002년 세상에 처음 내놓는 장편 『나의 아름다운 정원』은 인왕산 아래 산동네에서 자랐던 어린 시절의 경험이 고스란히 녹아 있는 자전적 소설이기도 하다. 제7회 한겨레문학상을 수상하며 …
Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine e…
Sara is a writer and editor. She lives in London and was born in Hertfordshire to Indian and English parents. Her debut novel The Reading List is partly inspired by her grandfather, who lived in Wembl…
Emi Yagi is an editor at a Japanese women’s magazine. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Diary of a Void is her first novel; it won the Dazai Osamu Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work…
Usami was born in Numazu, Shizuoka, and raised in Kanagawa Prefecture.She was awarded Bungei Prize for her first work Kaka (かか) in 2019. She was successively awarded Mishima Yukio Prize for the same w…