Contributor

Kanako Nishi

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Contributor

Kanako Nishi

Japan

Born in 1977 in Tehran, Kanako Nishigrew up in Osaka and Cairo, and recently returned to Tokyo after living in Vancouver. A writer and artist, she has published more than two dozen books in Japanese, including novels, short stories, essays, and children’s books....

Her 2023 memoir, Looking for Spiders (and Clouds), won the Japan Booksellers’ Award for Nonfiction and the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Translations of her work in English have appeared in Freeman’s, Granta, Slice, Brick, and Literary Hub, as well as Words Without Borders.

Flight: An International Exquisite Corpse

By Pema Bhum, Claudia Salazar Jiménez, Krys Lee & Kanako Nishi

Four writer/translator teams work together to create a single story in multiple languages.

Translated by Elizabeth Bryer, Kang Daehoon, Tenzin Dickie & Allison Markin Powell

Fear of Manners

By Kanako Nishi

Day in and day out, so many personal habits can drive us crazy.

Translated from Japanese by Allison Markin Powell

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Kanako Nishi

Kanako Nishi

Articles by Kanako Nishi

Flight: An International Exquisite Corpse

Fear of Manners