Edmond Lee
Lynne Kutsukake is a Japanese Canadian writer. Her debut novel, The Translation of Love (2016), won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Grain, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review, and The Journey Prize Stories 21 & 22. She studied Japanese literature at the University of Toronto, has lived and worked in Japan, and has translated the fiction of Mizuko Masuda. For many years she was a librarian at the University of Toronto. Her second novel, The Art of Vanishing (Knopf Canada, 2024), is about female friendship and creative yearning set against a backdrop of Japan’s 1970s art world.
