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The Door Between Us

by Mieko Kawakami
The New Yorker, 2024.08

translated story for summer "Flash Fiction" series

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The Night of Baba Yaga

by Akira Otani
Soho Crime 2024.07 (US)
Faber & Faber 2024.09 (UK)

CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation, shortlist

CrimeFest Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award, winner

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Hit Parade of Tears

by Izumi Suzuki
Verso Books 2023.04

translated stories “Trial Witch” and “My Guy”

2023 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Translated Short Fiction, shortlist

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All the Lovers in the Night

by Mieko Kawakami 
Europa Editions 2022.05 (US)
Picador 2022.05 (UK)

cotranslated with David Boyd

2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, finalist

2023 Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize, runner-up

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Heaven

by Mieko Kawakami
Europa Editions 2021.05 (US)
Picador 2021.06 (UK)

cotranslated with David Boyd

2022 International Booker Prize, shortlist

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Breasts and Eggs

by Mieko Kawakami
Europa Editions 2020.04 (US)
Picador 2020.08 (UK)

cotranslated with David Boyd

2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, shortlist

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Star

by Yukio Mishima
New Directions 2019.04

2019-2020 Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, winner

2019 Believer Book Award: Fiction, longlist

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Katanagatari

by NISIOISIN
Kodansha, 2018 to 2020

Four omnibus editions comprising NISIOISIN’s complete twelve-volume Katanagatari “Sword Tale” light novel saga, illuminated by footnotes written by Sam Bett for the translation

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