MONKEY New Writing from Japan
Volume 2: TRAVEL
Author: Ted Goossen and Motoyuki Shibata Series: MONKEY New Writing from Japan
The target market is readers of Japanese contemporary literature — a market that’s exploded in recent years, beyond Haruki Murakami fans. Four of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020 were novels from Japan, and two of TIME magazine’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 were written (and translated) by MONKEY regulars: Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Aoko Matsuda’s Where the Wild Ladies Are. Our primary market is the United States, but also Canada, the UK, and English readers in Japan.
We send review copies to major media and Japan-related organizations.
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Summary
The target market is readers of Japanese contemporary literature — a market that’s exploded in recent years, beyond Haruki Murakami fans. Four of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020 were novels from Japan, and two of TIME magazine’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 were written (and translated) by MONKEY regulars: Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Aoko Matsuda’s Where the Wild Ladies Are. Our primary market is the United States, but also Canada, the UK, and English readers in Japan.
We send review copies to major media and Japan-related organizations.
Description
For readers who love Haruki Murakami and want to be introduced to other exciting contemporary Japanese writers, especially women writers.
MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume 2 celebrates TRAVEL -- we may not be able to travel much during this second year of the pandemic, but we can travel in our imaginations. MONKEY offers short fiction and poetry by writers such as Mieko Kawakami, Haruki Murakami, Hideo Furukawa, Hiromi Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and Kyohei Sakaguchi; new translations of modern classics; a graphic narrative by Satoshi Kitamura; and contributions from American writers such as Brian Evenson and Laird Hunt.
Critic Reviews
“"MONKEY is more fun than anything called literature has a right to be. Some of the most imaginative writing in the world just so happens to hail from Japan." --Roland Kelts, Nikkei Asia "An astonishment, by turns playful and profound, that makes you wish it were monthly." --Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "MONKEY is full of deep, funny, wild, scary, fabulous, moving, surprising, brilliant work." --Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome”
“MONKEY is more fun than anything called literature has a right to be. Some of the most imaginative writing in the world just so happens to hail from Japan.”
—Roland Kelts, Nikkei Asia
“An astonishment, by turns playful and profound, that makes you wish it were monthly.”
—Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“MONKEY is full of deep, funny, wild, scary, fabulous, moving, surprising, brilliant work.”
—Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome
About the Author
Ted Goosen(Canongate) were published in 2020.
Motoyuki Shibata.
Japanese fiction in translation is exploding in popularity and winning awards -- from Yu Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station, which won a 2020 National Book Award in Translated Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year to Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs, which was also recognized as a New York Times Notable Book and TIME magazine's 10 Best Books of 2020. Japanese women writers have really taken off. MONKEY is known for championing women writers, such as Mieko Kawakami, Hiromi Ito, Hiromi Kawakami, and Kikuko Tsumura. MONKEY is a beautifully designed, full-color, large-format annual anthology, featuring graphic narratives and commissioned illustrations throughout.
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