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Asako Yuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1981. She won the All Yomimono Award for New Writers for her story, 'Forget Me, Not Blue', which appeared in her debut, Shuuten No Anoko, published in 2010. She won the Yamamoto Shugoro Award in 2015 for Nile Perch No Joshikai. She has been nominated multiple times for the Naoko Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio and film.
Praise for Butter: ‘Exuberant, indulgent romp of a novel … Butter is a full-fat, Michelin-starred treat’ Sunday Times 'Yuzuki has created a cult phenomenon' iNews ‘Yuzuki has become the poster girl of a British boom for Japanese fiction’ The Times ‘Word of mouth hit and cult Japanese bestseller, Butter, took the literary world by storm' BBC ‘Readers around the world are finding themselves utterly captivated’ Daily Mail ‘Ambitious and unsettling … a thought-provoking and surprisingly feelgood take on friendship, transgressive pleasures, and society’s impossibly contradictory expectations of women’ Guardian ‘A biting satire on fat-shaming culture and double standards in beauty’ Financial Times
