Hachette India

The Woman Dies

Aoko Matsuda

Polly Barton

Key Selling Points:

• Popular collection of Japanese short form fiction.

• 30,000 copies sold in Japan.

• Polly Barton is the translator of Butter, the 2024 phenomenon, and is happy to be involved in events.

Target Readership:

• For fans of Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida, Butter by Asako Yuzuki, and the works of Sayaka Murata and Mieko Kawakami.

• For readers of Mariana Henriquez and Carmen Maria Machado

Classification : General & Literary Fiction
Pub Date : OCT 9, 2025
Imprint : Europa Editions
Page Extent :
Binding : PB
ISBN : 9781787705876
Price : INR 1,399

Aoko Matsuda

Aoko Matsuda is an award-winning Japanese writer and literary translator. In 2013, her debut book, Stackable, was nominated for the Mishima Yukio Prize and the Noma Literary New Face Prize. In 2019, her short story “The Woman Dies,” was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award. In 2021, Her short story collection Where the Wild Ladies Are, published by Tilted Axis Press, was nominated for the Ray Bradbury Prize sponsored by the LA Times, and won the Firecracker Award in the fiction category and the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection. This collection was also named by TIME and The New Yorker as one of the Best Fiction Books of 2020. She has translated work by Karen Russell, Amelia Gray and Carmen Maria Machado into Japanese.

Polly Barton

Polly Barton is a writer and Japanese literary translator. Her translations include Butter by Asako Yuzuki, Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, and There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura. She has published two works of non-fiction, Fifty Sounds, for which she won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and Porn: An Oral History. What Am I, A Deer? is her debut novel.