
Umiyuri Katsuyama is a Japanese author of fantasy and horror. She was born and raised in northeastern Japan. She published five novels and two collections on the subject of Japanese/Chinese folklore and literature. In 2011, she won the 23rd Japan Fantasy Novel Award by “Sazanami no Kuni” (The Land of Ripples). She also won the 4th bk1 Kaidan Award in 2006 and the special citation of the 2nd “Yoo” Magazine Kaidan Award in 2007. Her latest novel “Chuushi, Ayashii Nabe to Tabi o Suru” (Tokyo Sogensha, 2018), a Seiun Award nominee, featured a young traveling chef with a shape-shifting wok in 18th century China.
Now she is working at the next novel.
Sessions in which Umiyuri Katsuyama participates
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16:30
- Reading: Umiyuri Katsuyama Programming - Reading Room 1
- 16:30 NZST - 16:55 NZST | 25 minutes
- Reading
10:00
10:00
- The Future Is Female: Women SF Writers from Mary Shelley to Ursula Le Guin and Octavia Butler Programming - Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
- 10:00 NZST - 10:50 NZST | 50 minutes
- Panel
17:00
17:00
- Asian Women of Horror: The Experience of Perpetual "Otherness" Through the Lens of Dark Fiction Programming - Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
- 17:00 NZST - 17:50 NZST | 50 minutes
- Panel
12:00
12:00
- Translation: the Key to Open Doors to the Cultural Diversity in SFF Programming - Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
- 12:00 NZST - 12:50 NZST | 50 minutes
- Panel
11:00
11:00
- Kaffeeklatsch: Umiyuri Katsuyama
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Programming - Kaffeklatch and Literary Beer Room
- 11:00 NZST - 11:50 NZST | 50 minutes
- Kaffeeklatsch