Kō Machida
Kō Machida is a punk singer, poet, actor and novelist from Osaka. He debuted as a poet with Kyoka (Offering Flowers) in 1992, and as a novelist with Kussun daikoku (Kussun Daikoku) in 1996, which won The Noma Literary New Face Prize and Prix des Deux Magots Bunkamura. In 2000, he won the Akutagawa Prize for Kiregire (Choppy) and he won the Kawabata Yasunari Literary Prize for Gongen no odoriko (Dancing for the Avatar) in 2002, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro Prize for Kokuhaku (Confessions) in 2005, and The Noma Literary Prize for Yadoya meguri (Inn Cruise) in 2008.
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Dancing for the Avatar
Kō Machida
‘If I let myself sink down into this I’m never coming back up.’