{"id":7347,"date":"2016-05-20T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T22:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=7347"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:04:30","slug":"lynne-katsukake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/lynne-katsukake\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynne Kutsukake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lynne Kutsukake is a third-generation Japanese Canadian. She is a former Japanese studies librarian at the University of Toronto. Her short story “Mating,” originally published in The Dalhousie Review,<\/em> was a finalist for the Journey Prize<\/a> in 2010. The previous year, her short story “Away,” first published in Grain Magazine<\/em>, was a finalist for the Journey Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Art of Vanishing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2024.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Akemi\u2019s desire for independence and aversion to marriage are unusual in her small village. A gift for drawing allows her to move to a rooming house in Tokyo where she studies medical illustration, finding satisfaction in the precision and purpose of her work. Sayako is the first roommate to pay Akemi attention, and they quickly become inseparable\u2014Sayako drawn to Akemi\u2019s humble origins, so distinct from her own insufferable, wealthy family; Akemi attracted to Sayako\u2019s\u00a0rebelliousness and her aspiration to be a painter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As Akemi begins to model for Sayako, their connection deepens. Together, they attend \u2018happenings,’ encounters arranged by two enigmatic artists, Nezu and Kaori, in random locations, intended to free them from their worldly attachments. Following a devastating betrayal, Sayako disappears, and Akemi becomes determined to find her\u2014and in the process, must newly face herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Tender, enthralling, and evocative of the energy of Japan in the 1970s,\u00a0The Art of Vanishing<\/em>\u00a0is the story of a young woman struggling to see and be seen; of authenticity and art; of the thin line between loyalty and obsession.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Translation of Love: A Novel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2016.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After spending the war years in a Canadian internment camp, thirteen-year-old Aya Shimamura and her father are faced with a gut-wrenching choice: move east of the Rocky Mountains or go \u201cback\u201d to Japan. Barred from returning home to the West Coast and bitterly grieving the loss of Aya\u2019s mother during internment, Aya\u2019s father signs a form that enables the government to deport them.
But war-devastated Tokyo is not much better. Aya\u2019s father struggles to find work, compromising his morals and toiling long hours. Meanwhile, Aya, born and raised in Vancouver, is something of a pariah at her school, bullied for being foreign and paralyzed when asked to communicate in Japanese. Aya\u2019s alienation is eventually mitigated by one of her principal tormenters, a willful girl named Fumi Tanaka, whose older sister has mysteriously disappeared. …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Told through rich, interlocking story lines, The Translation of Love<\/em> mines this turbulent period to show how war irrevocably shapes the lives of people on both sides\u2014and yet the novel also allows for a poignant spark of resilience, friendship, and love that translates across cultures and borders to stunning effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2016 Canada-Japan Literary Award<\/a> (Winner)
2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize–Literary Fiction<\/a> (Winner)
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“Away” was first published in Grain Magazine<\/em>. It was shortlisted for the 2009 awarding of The Journey Prize. It appeared in The Journey Prize: Stories: The Best of Canada’s New Writers<\/a> (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2009).
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“Mating” was first published in the journal The Dalhousie Review<\/em>. It was a finalist for the 2010 awarding of The Journey Prize. It appeared in The Journey Prize: Stories: The Best of Canada’s New Writers<\/a> (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010).
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Publisher Knopf Canada<\/a>, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynne Kutsukake entry in the Japanese Canadian Artists Directory<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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