Mieko Kawakami: Sisters in Yellow

Authors

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  Mieko Kawakami

  Mieko Kawakami is the author of the internationally bestselling novels Breasts and Eggs, Heaven and All the Lovers in the Night. Breasts and Eggs was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of TIME’s Best 10 Books of 2020.
  
  Born in Osaka, Japan, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet in 2006, and in 2007 published her first novella, My Ego, My Teeth, and the World. Kawakami’s literary awards include the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize. She lives in Tokyo, Japan.
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  Jessie Kindig

  Jessie Kindig is an editor and writer in New York City. She is senior editor for the humanities at Yale University Press, contributing editor for the feminist magazine Lux, and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her writing has appeared in Orion, n+1, The Point, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and elsewhere, and she is the editor of The Verso Book of Feminism (Verso, 2020). Among other projects, she is the dramaturg for performer Sophia Brous’ ongoing work, “Set Pieces.”

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