Yuten Sawanishi was born in Osaka. He is the author of Furamingo no mura (Village of Flamingos), for which he was awarded the Subaru Literary Prize in 2011. He is currently studying modern Japanese literature in the doctoral program at Kyoto University.
‘The vagina was the first part of her mother’s body that turned to sugar.’
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