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July 10, 2024

FCCJ Book Break. July 10. 18:00. Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな), author of "The Premonition"

From: FCCJ LIBRARY <library@fccj.or.jp>
Date: 2024/06/28

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ)  is pleased to announce the upcoming Book Break event on Wednesday, July 10, 2024.

Book Break: The Premonition (哀しい予感)
By  Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな)
Wednesday, July 10, 2024, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm

(Enjoy dinner with attendees before Yoshimoto discusses her book in Japanese and takes questions with English interpretation. Photography, video and audio-recording are not permitted.)                      
                                                 
Schedule:
Doors open at 6:00 pm.
Dinner is served from 6:15 pm.
The presentation starts from 7:15 pm.

Admission:
3,000 yen/ 4,000 yen (member/ non-member, including tax, a set dinner with a drink)
550 yen (Online attendance via zoom, including tax)

Please sign up by email (front@fccj.or.jp) and pay by Friday, July 5th, 2024.

Venue:
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan
5F Marunouchi Nijubashi Building
3-2-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
(https://www.fccj.or.jp/article/access-contact)
      

英文の下に日本語の告知文が続きます。                                                                          
Banana Yoshimoto, the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of Kitchen, will discuss her book The Premonition. The Japanese original, published in 1988, was an instant bestseller and has sold 1.92 million copies. The book was released in 2023 in an English translation by Asa Yoneda and has garnered rave reviews in the global media. Set in Japan, is a deep and heartwarming exploration of loneliness and painful memories. In the story, Yayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, is learning to come to terms with her mysterious past.

Yoshimoto, 59, is an icon in modern Japanese literature and has won critical acclaim for her writing and vision. She debuted as an author with Kitchen, which won the 6th Kaien Newcomer Writer's Prize in 1987. She also won the 16th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature (1988) with Moonlight Shadow, the 39th Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts for Utakata/Sankuchuari (Transient/Sanctuary) (1989) and the 2nd Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for Goodbye Tsugumi (1989), the 5th Murasaki Shikibu Literary Prize for Amrita (1995.)

In 2000 her book, Furin to Nanbei (Adultery and South America) was awarded the 10th Bunkamura Les Deux Magots Literature Award (selection made by Mitsumasa Anno.)  In October 2022, her Miton to Fubin was awarded the 58th Tanizaki Junichiro Prize, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in Japan. Her Italian awards include the Premio Scanno in 1993, the Premio Fendissime (for artists under 35) in 1996, the Machera d'Argento in 1999 and the Premio Capri in 2011. Her books have been translated and published in over 30 countries.

"A sure and lyrical writer .... Yoshimoto transforms the trite into the essential" (The New Yorker). "Yoshimoto's novels are like jewel boxes" (Vanity Fair). "Gorgeous ... an invitation to explore [Yoshimoto's] unusual, alluring world" (The Telegraph).

During the COVID-19 crisis from 2019, Banana produced a prolific line of pandemic-focused essays that drew in more fans in Japan.

Yoshimoto will also share her thoughts on modern Japanese society and literature.
                                                                                                            
-----Information from the author and the publisher.

Doors open at 6:00 pm. Dinner is served from 6:15 pm. The presentation starts at 7:15 pm.

Dinner includes coffee or tea and one beverage of choice including orange juice, oolong tea, white wine, red wine and beer.

3,000 yen for members/4,000 yen for non-members. Cancellations accepted up to 72 hours in before the event.

Please reserve at the reception desk or by email (front@fccj.or.jp). Non-members must pay by Friday, July 5th, 2024.

Online attendance (via Zoom) is available at 550 yen per person, by reservation.

Attendees with food restrictions should inform the club when reserving.

Thank you.

Library, Archives & Workroom Committee



(夕食付きイベント。日英通訳付。スピーチ、質疑応答中の写真・動画撮影、録音はご遠慮ください)                                                                             

『キッチン』で国際的な評価を得た吉本ばななが、最新作『The Premonition』(翻訳Asa Yoneda)を語る。この作品の基は、1988年に日本で出版されベストセラーとなった『哀しい予感』(実売部数:約192万冊)。昨年10月に出版された英訳は、海外のメディアから絶賛を浴びている。日本を舞台にして、忘れられない孤独と辛い思い出、心温まる探検の物語。幸せな家庭で育った19歳の弥生が、謎だった自身の過去に向き合っていく。

日本文学のアイコンである吉本(59歳)は、その執筆活動とビジョンで批評家から高い評価を得ている。『ムーンライト・シャドウ』で第16回泉鏡花文学賞(1988年)、『キッチン』『うたかた/サンクチュアリ』で第39回芸術選奨文部大臣新人賞(1989年)、『TUGUMI』で第2回山本周五郎賞(1989年)、『アムリタ』で第5回紫式部文学賞(1995年)を受賞。

 2000年には、『不倫と南米』で第10回ドゥマゴ文学賞(安野光雅・選)、2022年10月は『ミトンとふびん』で日本でもっとも権威ある文学賞のひとつである第58回谷崎潤一郎賞を受賞。また、イタリアでは、スカンノ賞(1993年)、フェンディッシメ文学賞<Under35>(1996年)、マスケラダルジェント賞(1999年)、カプリ賞(2011年)を受賞している。近著に『はーばーらいと』がある。noteにて配信中のメルマガ「どくだみちゃんとふしばな」をまとめた文庫本も発売中。その著作は30か国以上で翻訳出版されている。

「確かで、抒情的な小説家。吉本は、ありふれた出来事を絶対不可欠な出来事へと一変させる」(米ニューヨーカー誌)、「吉本の小説は、まるで宝石箱のようだ」(米ヴァニティフェア誌)、「ゴージャス。(吉本の)ありきたりではない、魅惑的な世界の探検への招待状」(英テレグラフ紙)

2019年から3年続いた新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大、自粛期間中も、パンデミックに焦点を当てた多数のエッセイで日本の読者の支持を得た。このトークでは、近代の日本社会や文学について吉本の考えも語る。

午後6時              開場
午後6時15分頃~  お食事のサービング開始
午後7時15分        開会
午後8時半            閉会

お食事のメニュー:未定(サラダ、メインディッシュ、パン、デザート、コーヒーまたは紅茶、ドリンク1杯)。

料金(一人):3,000円/4,000円/550円(会員/一般/オンライン)。

一般の方のご予約はメールで受け付けます(front@fccj.or.jp)。お支払いは7月5日(金)までにお願いいたします。

キャンセルの受付は7月7日(日)午後6時まで。

アレルギー等の理由でお召し上がりになれない食材がございましたら、ご予約の際にフロントにお知らせください。


Library, Archives & Workroom Committee
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ)
https://www.fccj.or.jp/

Approved by ssjmod at 06:19 PM