We’re excited to announce that The Lost Scrapbook has just won the Grand Prize at the 11th Japan Translation Awards!
On April 27, 2025, the Japan Translation Award committee met in Tokyo and named two works as recipients of this year’s Grand Prize. One of them was the Japanese translation of The Lost Scrapbook, carried into another language and another world by Yoshihiko Kihara, and published by Genki Shobo.
In an act of translation that is itself a kind of reimagining, Kihara has given the novel another life. We are deeply grateful for the patience, attention, and invention required to make such a crossing possible — and to Genki Shobo for providing it a new home.
We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who helped bring this project to life and to the Japan Translation Award committee for the recognition.
You can check out the publisher’s page for the Japanese edition here.
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