Erika Kobayashi was born in 1978 in Tokyo, Japan. She creates works that are inspired by things invisible to the eye: time and history, family and memory, and the traces left in places. She was awarded the seventh Tekken Heterotopia Literary Prize in 2020 for her novel Trinity, Trinity, Trinity, and nominated for the twenty-seventh Mishima Yukio Award and the 151st Akutagawa Award for her novel Breakfast with Madame Curie. She currently lives and works in Tokyo. |