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Quite A Catch by Matsuda Aoko
A short story from Where The Wild Ladies Are – translated from Japanese by Polly Barton.
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Quite A Catch by Matsuda Aoko
A short story from Where The Wild Ladies Are – translated from Japanese by Polly Barton.
Nigerian Literature: Four Deaths and an Elegy
On Wreaths For A Wayfarer, Pius Adesanmi, Tejumola Olaniyan, and Harry Garuba.
How to Marry an African President by Erica Sugo Anyadike
Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.
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Issue 102, Summer 2020 Special Issue: Japan: Literatures of Remembering
Editorial The Making and Re-making of Memory
Interview Mieko Kawakami
Articles Hayao Miyazaki’s European Animation; Poems of the Perilous Season: Akiko’s Princess Saho; Unruly Subjects in 'Walking a Street Named Peace' and Tokyo Ueno Station; Hibakusha Memories: Between the Generations
Art Manga as Memory: Cocoon, In this Corner of the World and Popular History, The Politics of Ownership: Notes on Miyako Ishiuchi’s Photographs
Fiction Hideo Furukawa, Minako Ōba
Poetry Mimi Hachikai, Tamiki Hara, Hiromi Itō, Naha Kanie, Mieko Kawakami, Martha Nakamura, Sayaka Ōsaki, Ryōichi Wagō
Life-writing Kumiko Kakehashi, Susan Southard
Review Essay The Transformation of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Fiction
Reviews Osamu Dazai, A Shameful Life; Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino; Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are; Yoko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
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Welcoming Vicky Unwin as the new Chair to Wasafiri’s Board of Trustees
A key member of the original organisation that lead to the magazine’s founding in 1984, Unwin returns to Wasafiri 35 years later.
Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize partners with The Good Literary Agency
We’re delighted to announce an additional prize that will be awarded to this year’s shortlist.
BookBound 2020: A Virtual Literary Festival
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