Join us for a conversation with author Asako Yuzuki, who will visit Oxford to talk about her writing, and her sensational novel, BUTTER. Translated by Polly Barton, this Japanese bestseller explores misogyny, obsession, romance, and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.

Asako Yuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1981. She won the All Yomimono Award for New Writers in 2008 for ‘Forget Me, Not Blue,’ which appeared in her debut, Shuuten no ano ko, published in 2010. She won the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize in 2015 for Nile Perch no joshikai. Among her many other hit works, BUTTER was published in 2017, and released in the UK in 2024.

This event will be moderated by Dr Juliana Buriticá Alzate (Departmental Lecturer, Modern Japanese Literature, University of Oxford). There will be interpretation from Japanese to English.

This event is co-hosted by The Queen’s Translation Exchange (QTE), and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, with the support of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.

Presented in collaboration with the Japan Foundation and in association with 4th Estate (HarperCollins).