Diary of a Void: A Novel by Yagi, Emi

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US: Penguin Books, 2023. Paperback. New. About the Author Emi Yagi is an editor at a Japanese women's magazine. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Diary of a Void is her first novel; it won the Dazai Os amu Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work of fiction. David Boyd (translator) has twice won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. He has translated fiction by Mieko Kawakami, Izumi Suzuki, and Hiroko Oyamada, among others. He is a n assistant professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Ch arlotte. Lucy North (translator) is the translator of The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura as well as fiction and nonfiction by over half a dozen other modern and contemporary Japanese writers. Her fiction translations have appeared in Granta, Words Without Borders, and The Southern Review, as well as in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, and Found in Translation:… Read More