Roger Pulvers to give keynote speech at 2018 Takuboku Festival
Statue of poet Ishikawa Takuboku (1886-1912), Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Source: Wikipedia At this year’s annual Takuboku Festival, held in honour of one of Japan’s most important poets, Takuboku...
View ArticleTwo new editions of Kazufumi Shiraishi’s critically acclaimed novel ‘The...
Cover of bunko-bon edition of The Lightless Sea, Hikari no nai umi, by Kazufumi Shiraishi, published May 2018. The Lightless Sea, Hikari no nai umi, by the Red Circle author Kazufumi Shiraishi, is...
View Article‘Cult X’, Fuminori Nakamura’s latest novel to be published in English, making...
Cover of English language Edition of Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura. Translated by Kalau Almony and published in May 2018 by Soho Crime The much anticipated, Cult X, Fuminori Nakamura’s seventh novel in...
View ArticleAnnouncing Red Circle Minis: A Unique New Series of Short Japanese Books in...
Covers of the first three books in the Red Circle Minis series published in November 2018. Image: Red Circle Authors Limited Red Circle will publish the first three titles in its Red Circle Minis...
View ArticleGenji Shines Again: Final volume of Mitsuyo Kakuta’s brilliant new edition of...
Japanese language promotional banner advert for the third volume of Mitsuyo Kakuta’s adaption of The Tale of Genji, published February 2020 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha. Mitsuyo Kakuta, the prolific and...
View ArticleLeading Italian magazine launches a special edition of Takuji Ichikawa’s...
Banner advertisement from the website of the Italian magazine, Oggi, promoting its series ‘Love Library’ within which Takuji Ichikawa’s novel was published in March 2020 Oggi, one of Italy’s oldest and...
View Article‘The Line’ a new Kafkaesque work by Fuminori Nakamura is making headlines in...
Cover of The Line, Retsu, by Fuminori Nakamura published by Kodansha in hardback October 2023 Earlier this month Kodansha, one of Japan’s largest and most prestigious publishers, released The Line,...
View ArticleStella team behind Chinese film adaptation of multi-million selling Japanese...
Publicity image for Chinese film adaptation by Wanda Pictures of Takuji Ichikawa’s novel ‘Be With You’. Wanda Pictures, one of China’s leading film producers and the owner of the largest chain of...
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