Far From Everywhere

HIROMI KAWAKAMI was born in Tokyo in 1958. In 2001 she won the Tanizaki Prize for Strange Weather in Tokyo, which became an international bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 International Foreign Fiction Prize. Her other fiction in translation includes The Nakano Thrift Shop, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino, People from My Neighbourhood, The Third Love and Under the Eye of the Big Bird, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2025. Kawakami has contributed to editions of Granta in both the UK and Japan and is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists. ALLISON MARKIN POWELL has been awarded grants from English PEN and the NEA, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino. Her translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Fuminori Nakamura, Shiori Ito and Kanako Nishi. She was the guest editor for the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders and she maintains the database Japanese Literature in English at www.japaneseliteratureinenglish.com.