Lucy North

Lucy North is a British translator of Japanese fiction and nonfiction. Her collection Toddler Hunting and Other Stories, ten stories by Taeko Kono written in the 1960s, first published in 1996, included now in Weidenfeld & Nicholson’s list of W&N Essentials, remains the only book in English of Kono’s work. Her translation of The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura won the 2022 Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize, and her most recent publication is a collection of stories by Imamura titled ASA: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks.