Events

Time and Location

April 7, 7pm
Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, MA)

April 9, 6pm
Rizzoli Bookstore (New York, NY)
*This event will be recorded and uploaded to our YouTube Channel at a later date!

About

To celebrate the release of Kanako Nishi’s English-language debut novel Sakura, Kanako Nishi and her translator Allison Markin Powell will visit the Boston and New York City areas! Both visits will include a reading from the novel as well as a discussion of contemporary Japanese literature and the translation process.

Kanako Nishi is a Japanese writer and artist. She is the author of the novels Sakura, which was a major bestseller in Japan; Tsutenkaku (Osaka Tower), which won the Sakunosuke Oda Prize; Fukuwarai (Lucky Laugh), which received the first Hayao Kawai Prize; and Saraba!, which won the prestigious Naoki prize in 2015. She was named Vogue Japan’s Woman of the Year in 2015 and among Granta’s Best of Young Japanese Novelists 2016. Several of her books have been adapted for film. Born in Tehran in 1977, Nishi grew up in Cairo and Osaka and lives in Tokyo.

Allison Markin Powell is a literary translator, editor, and publishing consultant. She received the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami and a Pushcart Prize for My Ass by Kanako Nishi. Her other translations and co-translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Shiori Ito, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and Kaoru Takamura.

They will also visit other cities (Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver). For more information regarding the Los Angeles visit: Japan Foundation Los Angeles | Bestseller Sakura with author Kanako Nishi and translator Allison Markin Powell

April 16, 7-8:30pm
The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)

This literary tour is co-presented by the Japan Foundation in collaboration with Kanako Nishi and Allison Markin Powell, supported by HarperCollins Publishers and local venues.