Kaori Fujino

Aug 22, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Uttaran Das Gupta |Kaori Fujino |Lia Galvan Lisker |Gozo Yoshimasu

Preface—For a Book with an Intimidating Title1Why and how does this thing called “poesy” or poetic mind occur in our mind? I’m giving a humble introduction to this book that has a somewhat intimidating title, What is Poetry, while clumsily speaking and carefully listening to my own voice.

Jul 29, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Kaori Fujino |Mieko Kawakami |Ahmed Isselmou |Eve Stockwell

At Tokyo Station, I saw someone willingly cease being themself. I’d heard it was becoming an issue, but this was the first time I’d actually seen it happen. Wait, we just got here, wow, no way, the city really is a scary place. My friend Cocoro and I transmitted these thoughts back and forth as we blinked away, taking snapshots. By the time we left the station, giddy with excitement—Tokyo! We’re in Tokyo!—more than half of the person’s P-Pod had already melted off, forty-two yards ahead of us.

Jul 11, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Kaori Fujino

Kaori Fujino, a lifelong resident of Kyoto, is best known for fiction that reimagines tropes from horror, science fiction, Hollywood thrillers, urban legends, fairy tales, and museum culture. She holds an MA in aesthetics and art from Doshisha University. In 2013, Fujino was awarded the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s most prominent literary prize, for Nails and Eyes. In the fall of 2017, she was in residence at the University of Iowa’s prestigious International Writing Program.