Hiroyuki Itsuki Author

Hiroyuki Itsuki is a novelist, essayist, critic, songwriter and composer from Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture. He is the winner of the 1966 Shosetsu Gendai Prize for New Writers for “Saraba Mosukuwa gurentai” (“Farewell to Moscow Misfits”), the 1967 Noaki Prize for “Aozameta uma wo mivo” (“See the Paled Horse”), the 1976 Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature for “Seishun no mon, Chikuho-hen” (“The Gate of Youth: Chikuho”) and the 2002 Kikuchi Kan Prize. 

Meredith McKinney is an award-winning translator whose previous translations include “The Pillow Book, ”Soseki Natsume’s “Kusamakura” and “Koroko,” Yoshikichi Furui’s “Ravine and Other Stories,” for which she won the Japan–US Friendship Commission Translation Award in 2000, and work by Seiko Tanabe and Masahiko Shimada.