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Rie Qudan was born in Saitama, Japan. After she made her debut in 2021 with Bad Music, which won the Bungakukai New Writers Award, she was quickly acclaimed as one of the most exciting new writers in Japanese literature. In 2022, her second work, Schoolgirl, was shortlisted for the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most prestigious literary award. Her third work, The Poetry Horse, won Noma Literary Newcomer Award. Her runaway bestselling fourth novel, Sympathy Tower Tokyo was published in 2024, and won the Akutagawa Prize. Jesse Kirkwood is a literary translator working from Japanese into English. The recipient of the 2020 Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize, his translations include Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto, Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan and A Perfect Day to Be Alone by Nanae Aoyama. |
