Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000.
His translation work has won the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize and been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize..
Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator.
His other novels include Cult X , The Gun , The Kingdom , Evil and the Mask , The Boy in the Earth , My Annihilation , and Last Winter, We Parted.
The Thief, his first novel to be translated into English, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Goodis Award for Noir Fiction; and the Akutagawa Prize.
He has won numerous prizes for his writing, including Japan\'s prestigious Ōe Prize; the David L.
Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000
