Biographie de Hiromi Kawakami
Born in 1959 in Tokyo, Hiromi Icawakami is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists, famous for her offbeat literary fiction. She is the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Man Asian Literary Prize, The Nakano The Shop and The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino. Ted Goossen is Professor of Japanese Literature at York University in Toronto and has translated writers including Haruki Murakami.