Biographie de Yukiko Motoya
Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theatre Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. Her frst story,'Eriko to zettai', appeared in the literary magazine Gunzo in 2002. Motoya won the Noma Prize for New Writers for Warm Poison in 2011 ; the Kenzaburõ Oe Prize for Picnic in the Storm in 2013 ; the Mishima Yukio Prize for How She Learned to Love Herself in 2014 ; and Japan's most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016.
Her books have been published or are forthcoming in French, Norwegian, Spanish and Chinese, and her stories have been published in English in Granta, Words Without Borders, Tender and Catapult. Asa Yoneda was born in Osaka, Japan, and lives in Bristol, UK In addition to Yukiko Motoya, she has translated works by Banana Yoshimoto, Aoko Matsuda and Natsuko Kuroda.
