Kurt Almqvist Author & Editor

Kurt Almqvist is CEO at the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

Yukiko Duke is a writer and literary critic based in Sweden. Of Swedish-Japanese origin, she is the author of “Mikaku – den japanska kokboken”, which was nominated for the August Prize, and several other, critically acclaimed books on Japan.

Includes texts by Blaine Brownell, Christal Whelan, Constantine N. Vaporis, Inken Prohl, James E. Ketelaar, James L. Huffman, John Lie, Karl Friday, Lars Vargö, Margaret Mehl, Mark Williams, Michael Wert, Naoki Sakai, Oleg Benesch, Peter Nosco, Pia Moberg, Roger Goodman, Stephen Turnbull, Thomas D. Conlan.