Yasutaka Tsutsui
One of Japan’s best-known and most respected writers,...
lives in Viterbo and works in the Oriental Institute Library of the University of Rome.
He has published three novels: Fumisteria ([Joking] GBM 2006, Premio Vittorini for best first novel), È finito il nostro carnevale ([Our carnival has come to an end] minimum fax 2007, sold to Annablume/Brazil; Kein & Aber/Germany), and La rivincita di Capablanca ([Capablanca’s revenge] minimum fax 2008, Premio Palmi 2009; Premio Coni 2009; sold to Kein & Aber/Germany). He is also the author of Holden, Lolita, Zivago e gli altri. Piccola enciclopedia dei personaggi letterari (1946–1999) ([Holden, Lolita, Zhivago, and the rest: A little encyclopedia of literary characters (1946–1999)] minimum fax 2010). With Sellerio he has published a short story in the anthology Articolo 1. Racconti sul lavoro (Article 1: Stories about work).
L'ULTIMO BALLO DI CHARLOT (2012)
One of Japan’s best-known and most respected writers,...
a poet, illustrator and writer who was once described as the...