Monkey New Writing from Japan: Volume 1: Food - Paperback

by Ted Goossen (Editor), Motoyuki Shibata (Editor)

For readers who love Haruki Murakami and want to be introduced to other exciting contemporary Japanese writers, especially women writers

Author Biography

TED GOOSSEN teaches Japanese literature and film at York University in Toronto. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories. He translated Haruki Murakami's Wind/Pinball and The Strange Library, and co-translated (with Philip Gabriel) Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. His translations of Hiromi Kawakami's People from My Neighbourhood (Granta Books) and Naoya Shiga's Reconciliation (Canongate) were published in 2020.
MOTOYUKI SHIBATA translates American literature and runs the Japanese literary journal MONKEY. He has translated Paul Auster, Rebecca Brown, Stuart Dybek, Steve Erickson, Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, and Richard Powers, among others. His translation of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a bestseller in Japan in 2018. Among his recent translations is Eric McCormack's Cloud.