Thursday 10 October, 2024
5:30pm BST - 7:30pm BST
Registration for this event is limited. please email sisjac@sainsbury-institute.org if you would like to attend and a member of the team will contact you.
Discussion followed by Q&A and book signing.
Free to attend, booking essential.
In-person event at Lecture Theatre 1, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, NR4 7TJ.
Doors open at 17:10.
This event will be in person only.
Please note you will not receive a ticket or confirmation email once registered. Please provide your name on the door on arrival and our team will be happy to help.
We are delighted to welcome award-winning author YUZUKI Asako to Norwich for a discussion about her tantalising thriller Butter, and its background.
Partially based on the real-life story of “Konkatsu Killer” KIJIMA Kanae, Butter follows investigative journalist MACHIDA Rika as she attempts to understand KAJII Manako, a convicted killer who maintains her innocence, through meeting with her in prison and cooking the recipes she offers. Infused throughout with social commentary on the misogyny and unfair beauty standards that continue to haunt contemporary Japanese society, the book immediately commanded critical acclaim upon its international release.
Moderated by Dr Hannah Osborne (Japan Foundation Lecturer in Japanese Literature, UEA).
Read Hannah Osborne’s recent article on four more Japanese writers that explore misogyny through food for The Conversation here.
This talk will be given in Japanese with English interpretation.
About the Author
YUZUKI Asako was born in Tokyo in 1981. She won the All Yomimono Award for New Writers in 2008 for “Forget Me, Not Blue,” which was included in her debut work Shuten no ano ko in 2010. Yuzuki also won the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize in 2015 for Nile Perch no joshikai (Nile Perch Women’s Club). Among her many other hit works, BUTTER was published in 2017.
Hosted by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and the British Centre for Literary Translation (UEA).
Presented in collaboration with the Japan Foundation and in association with 4th Estate.
