Takiguchi YushoTakiguchi Yusho was born in Tokyo in 1982 and raised in neighbouring Saitama. He writes stories about individual and collective memory, marked by a roaming, omniscient narrative voice and multiple temporalities. In 2011, he was awarded the Shincho Prze for New Writers for his novella Gakki. In 2015, he won the Noma Literary New Face Prize for Ai to Jinsei and was awarded the 154th Akutagawa Ryunosuke Award for Shindeinaimono in 2016. In 2022, he won the 39th Oda Sakunosuke Award for for his novel Suiheisen, and the next year he was awarded 73rd Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for Art Encouragement. Read More Read Less