Reading and Signing Event
Hiromi Kawakami & Ted Goossen
Introduced by Motoyuki Shibata, founder of MONKEY New Writing from Japan!
Thank you Hiromi Kawakami, Ted Goossen, and Motoyuki Shibata for stopping by Kinokuniya New York for an author read and signing! We were honored to host this event with Stone Bridge Press, MONKEY, and The Japan Foundation, New York!
Pick up Akutagawa-Prize winning author, Hiromi Kawakami’s Dragon Palace, newly translated by Ted Goossen at our New York store and online while supplies last!
Watch the author event video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxCvcxocXaY&t=18s
About the author:
Hiromi Kawakami is one of Japan’s most popular novelists. Many of her books have been published in English, including Manazuru, The Nakano Thrift Shop, Parade, Record of a Night Too Brief, Strange Weather in Tokyo (shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2013), and The Ten Loves of Nishino. People from My Neighborhood, translated by Ted Goossen, was published in 2020.
About the translator:
Ted Goossen 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.
