Yasutaka Tsutsui
One of modern Japan's most popular writers, Yasutaka Tsutsui has won the Tanizaki Prize and the Kawabata Prize, among several other awards. He was decorated as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French goverment. He lives in Japan.
Books
Salmonella Men On Planet Porno
This collection of marvelously off-kilter short stories – the American debut of acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui – portrays the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide and throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray.
(Pantheon, November 2008)