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A classic of the Heian period of Japanese literature, the sensual delight of The Pillow Book encourages writers to ‘follow their brush’.
Japanese and English readers have read Murakami in quite different contexts and chronologies.
Humans have always been fascinated by the moon and before we could really get there we travelled to it in our stories.
A classic of modern Japanese literature, Black Rain has come to exemplify ‘atomic bomb literature’.
The late writer never shied away from hard topics, breaking down walls of silence around topics like disability and rurality in post-war Japan.
An uncompromising writer who wrote about the dark and light of postwar Japan
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Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature, SOAS, University of London
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