Ryuta Imafuku is a Japanese author known for his work in speculative fiction. His novel, Chikaku, explores themes of perception and reality within a near-future setting. Imafuku's writing often features intricate world-building and complex characters.
Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子) is a Japanese writer who has lived in Germany since 1982 and writes in both Japanese and German. Born in Tokyo in 1960, she read Russian literature at Waseda University, later taking a master's degree in contemporary German literature at the University of Hamburg and a doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich; she has been based in Berlin since 2006. Her fiction, poetry, plays and essays turn on language, translation and displacement, and include *The B...