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Asako Yuzuki

2 Published Books

Asako Yuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1981. She won the All Yomimono Award for New Writers for her story, 'Forget Me, Not Blue', which appeared in her debut, Shuuten No Anoko, published in 2010. She won the Yamamoto Shugoro Award in 2015 for Nile Perch No Joshikai. She has been nominated multiple times for the Naoko Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio and film. Butter won Wat erstones Book of the Year 2024 and the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award 2024. It is shortlisted for debut of the year at the British Book Awards 2025 and longlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger Award 2025.

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