Canada-Japan
Literary Award: Lynne Kutsukake, writer ($10,000)
Winning work: The
Translation of Love
A third-generation
Japanese Canadian, Lynne Kutsukake is truly
passionate about Japan. She
has a master’s degree in East Asian Studies
from the University of
Toronto, and studied Japanese literature in Tokyo
on a Monbusho scholarship from the Japanese government. As a
University
of Toronto
librarian, she was in charge of the Japanese collection.
Lynne has written
a number of short stories and translated Masuda
Mizuko’s book of short
stories, Single Sickness and Other Stories
(2011). Lynne Kutsukake was awarded the Canada-Japan Literary Award for
her debut novel, The
Translation of Love.
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