Banana Yoshimoto

Banana Yoshimoto wrote her first novel, Kitchen, while working as a waitress at a golf-course restaurant. It sold millions of copies worldwide, and led to a phenomenon dubbed by Western journalists as "Banana mania." Yoshimoto has gone on to be one of the biggest-selling and most distinguished writers in Japanese history, winning numerous awards for her work. The Lake is her thirteenth book of fiction.

Michael Emmerich has translated numerous books by Banana Yoshimoto and is also famous for his translations of Nobel Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata.

This biography was last updated on 05/03/2011.

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