The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu

Augusto Higa Oshiro is a Peruvian writer born to immigrants from Okinawa and raised in Lima’s working-class center. In the ’70s he was a member of Peru’s Grupo Narración, a group of writers focused on realist, working-class fiction. He is the recipient of the Asociación Peruano Japonesa’s Premio José Watanabe Varas for prose and the Cámara Peruana del Libro’s Premio de Novela Breve, and has been recognized for his contributions to culture by Peru's Ministry of Culture. The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu will be his first book translated into English. 

Jennifer Shyue’s translations focus on contemporary Cuban and Asian-Peruvian writers. She has an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa and a BA in comparative literature from Princeton University. Her work has been supported by grants from Fulbright, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa and has appeared in The Arkansas International, New England Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and elsewhere.