Banana YoshimotoBanana Yoshimoto is the author of the international bestseller Kitchen. Many of her books have been published in English translation, including Goodbye Tsugumi, Asleep, and Moshi Moshi. Her work has been translated and published in more than thirty cuntries. In Italy, she won the Scanno Literary Prize in 1993, the Fendissime Literary Prize in 1996, the Maschera d'Argento Prize in 1999, and the Capri Award in 2011. She lives in Tokyo. Read More Read Less