Louise Heal Kawai

Louise Heal Kawai has been a Japanese-English literary translator since 2006. Her first publication was Shoko Tendo's bestselling autobiography Yakuza Moon . She has gone on to translate a large number of crime fiction titles, including Seishi Yokomizo's The Honjin Murders , and works by Soji Shimada and Seicho Matsumoto. Her literary translations include Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami, and Hideo Yokoyama's Seventeen , which was a finalist in the 2018 Believer Book Awards, and longlisted for...See more

Louise Heal Kawai has been a Japanese-English literary translator since 2006. Her first publication was Shoko Tendo's bestselling autobiography Yakuza Moon . She has gone on to translate a large number of crime fiction titles, including Seishi Yokomizo's The Honjin Murders , and works by Soji Shimada and Seicho Matsumoto. Her literary translations include Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami, and Hideo Yokoyama's Seventeen , which was a finalist in the 2018 Believer Book Awards, and longlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Award. She is also the translator of Sosuke Natsukawa's The Cat Who Saved Books . Louise comes from Manchester in the UK, and currently resides in Yokohama. See less