Amy Yamada

Amy Yamada is one of the most prominent and controversial novelists in Japan today. She burst onto the scene in 1985 with her short novel Bedtime Eyes, which for critics embodied the spirit of the 'shinjinru' - i.e. Generation X - in much the same way that 'Less Than Zero', 'Bright Lights', 'Big City', and 'Douglas Coupland' did in the U.S.

Amy Yamada is the author of over twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. She is the winner of the Naoki Prize, Japan's equivalent of the Pulitzer, and - for Bedtime Eyes - the prestigious Bungei Prize. She lives outside of Tokyo, Japan.

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Agent: Jessica Woollard