Lynne Kutsukake

LYNNE KUTSUKAKE is a novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, The Translation of Love, won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. She was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust McClelland and Stewart Journey Prize for her short story “Mating.” A third-generation Japanese Canadian, she has a master's degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto, studied Japanese literature in Japan on a Monbusho scholarship, and has a degree in Library and Information Science. Fluent in Japanese, she has translated a short story collection, Single Sickness and Other Stories, by Mizuko Masuda. For many years she worked as a Japanese Studies librarian at the University of Toronto.