Mieko Kanai

Born in 1947, Mieko Kanai has worked throughout her life as a writer, poet, essayist and literary and art critic. She has published around thirty novels and short story collections, and her critical essays have been featured in Japanese newspapers and magazines for almost fifty years. Several of her novels were translated into English in the 1970s, including Oh, Tama! , but there has been little since. In the English-speaking world, she is perhaps best known for her story 'Rabbits', translated...See more

Born in 1947, Mieko Kanai has worked throughout her life as a writer, poet, essayist and literary and art critic. She has published around thirty novels and short story collections, and her critical essays have been featured in Japanese newspapers and magazines for almost fifty years. Several of her novels were translated into English in the 1970s, including Oh, Tama! , but there has been little since. In the English-speaking world, she is perhaps best known for her story 'Rabbits', translated by Phyllis Birnbaum for the anthology Rabbits, Crabs, etc. , a gory retelling of Alice in Wonderland where a young girl puts on a suit made of freshly skinned rabbit fur. See less