Akira Otani

Akira Otani was born in Tokyo in 1981. She began her career as a video game writer and made her literary debut with the short-story collection “Nobody Said We're Perfect.” Her works also include the essay collection “Since You're So Curious About My Body.” Her first novel, “Die Yakuza-Prinzessin,” received the 2025 CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger Award, the CrimeFest Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award, and the CrimeReads Best International Crime Fiction of the Year award.