Meet Award-winning author Yu Miri at Kinokuniya New York!

Come meet Award-winning author Yu Miri at Kinokuniya New York on Wednesday, October 12th starting at 6pm! Followed by a book signing, she will be reading her TOKYO UENO STATION in Japanese, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

This event is in partnership with The Japan Foundation, New York. Click here to watch JFNY Literary Series - discussions between the Japanese writers and translators.

About Yu Miri

Yu Miri is a writer of plays, prose fiction, and essays, with over twenty books to her name. She received Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize. After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima, she began to visit the affected area, hosting a radio show to listen to survivors’ stories. She relocated to Fukushima in 2015 and has opened a bookstore and theater space to continue her cultural work in collaboration with those affected by the disaster.