Horse and I

Genki Kawamura was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1979. He produced films such as Confessions, Villain, Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki, your name, and Koreeda's Monster. He is the youngest recipient in history for the Fujimoto Award. In 2012, he published his first novel If Cats Disappeared from the World. The book has been translated in 32 countries. Other works include Million Dollar Man, April Come She Will, Divine Song, Shigoto, Rikei, and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse which he translated into Japanese. In 2022, he directed and wrote the film A Hundred Flowers based on his novel, for which he received the Silver Shell for Best Director Award at San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Chikako Kobayashi is a Japanese-to-English translator who once almost got a job as a Japanese-English interpreter for Steven Seagal. Born to peripatetic parents and brought up in Hong Kong, Japan, and the U.S., she has also spent time in mainland China teaching English. She is currently based in Tokyo.