Japan

Maki Kashimada

Maki Kashimada’s is a multi-award winning novelist well known for her avant-garde style. She was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for Touring the Land of the Dead. She has been a follower of the Japanese Orthodox Church since high school and was married to a member of its clergy.

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"Kashimada is well known as an experimental writer in Japan and it’s difficult to be sure whether it is her avant-gardism or our unfamiliarity with the Japanese sensibility that gives these stories a rather detached chill.”

— The Sunday Times, Mar 28 2021

“A spare and profound story, beautifully translated.”

— Waterstones, Feb 11 2021

"Maki Kashimada’s Touring the Land of the Dead sounds intriguing with its story of a woman married beneath her social station according to her mother and brother, both of whom seem unable to reconcile themselves to their own loss of status.

— A Life in Books, Feb 8 2021

— Reading Women Podcast, Jan 27 2021

“Magical Japanese novel.” Maki Kashimada’s Touring the Land of the Dead asks whether places are haunted by their own past.”

— The Guardian, Dec 27 2020