We’re thrilled to announce that Sachiko Kashiwaba will be coming to Kinokuniya Bookstore in midtown Manhattan to discuss her award-winning novel Temple Alley Summer (translated from the Japanese by Avery Fischer Udagawa, illustrated by Miho Satake) alongside Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, a literary translator of Japanese literature. This event was organized and made possible by the support of the Japan Foundation New York. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing for those who purchase Temple Alley Summer!

This admission free event will be on a first-come-first-served basis.

When: September 26 at 3:00 pm EST
Where: Kinokuniya New York, 1073 6th Ave, New York, NY 10018

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Sachiko Kashiwaba is a prolific writer of children’s and young adult fantasy whose career spans more than four decades. Her works have garnered the prestigious Sankei, Shogakukan, and Noma children’s literature awards, and her novel The Marvelous Village Veiled in Mist influenced Hayao Miyazaki’s film Spirited Away. Temple Alley Summer received the 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award, was a July/August 2021 Kids’ Indie Next Pick, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. She lives in Iwate Prefecture.

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a literary translator based in New York City. Born in Tokyo, raised in Texas, she holds degrees from Wesleyan University and UC Berkeley and currently teaches at the Bard Microcollege Program in Harlem. She has translated poems by Japanese American poets incarcerated during WW2 for the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation; an essay by media artist Masaki Fujihata for the Japanese American National Museum; and is currently archiving and translating Issei writing from 1920s-30s Los Angeles for the Issei Poetry Project. Her book-length translations are forthcoming from New Directions, Farrar Straus and Giroux, and Strangers Press.