Masashi Matsuie in conversation with Michael Emmerich at the London Review Bookshop on Friday 14 June at 7.00 p.m

Masashi Matsuie in conversation with Michael Emmerich at the London Review Bookshop on Friday 14 June at 7.00 p.m. 

The London Review Bookshop’s World Literature event in June will focus on Japan, with author Masashi Matsuie in conversation with literary translator Michael Emmerich. They’ll be discussing Japanese book design, the literary and publishing world in Japan, and Masashi Matsuie’s own transition from editor to award-winning author.

Masashi Matsuie is an author, editor, and visiting professor at Keio University and Waseda University. He worked for the publisher Shinchosha for 28 years, during which time he founded Shincho Crest Books, a series of contemporary literature in translation, and the quarterly magazine The Thinker. His first novel At the Foot of the Volcano, published in 2012, was shortlisted for the Noma Literary New Writers Prize.

Michael Emmerich is the translator of numerous works by Japanese authors, including Kawabata Yasunari, Yoshimoto Banana, Takahashi Gen’ichiro, Matsuura Rieko, Kawakami Hiromi, and Furukawa Hideo. He is the editor of Read Real Japanese Fiction and New Penguin Parallel Text: Short Stories in Japanese and the author of the forthcoming The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature. He is assistant professor of Japanese literature and cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

This event is supported by the Nippon Foundation.