The Travelling Cat Chronicles and The Goodbye Cat

Hiro Arikawa (Author)

HIRO ARIKAWA is the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Travelling Cat Chronicles and The Goodbye Cat. She lives in the city of Takarazuka, a much-visited stop on the famous Hankyu line, a privately run railway that connects Osaka and Kyoto and is known for its maroon-coloured vintage-style carriages.

Philip Gabriel (Translator)

Philip Gabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature. He has translated many novels and short stories by Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is the recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his translation of Senji Kuroi’s Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.