Nao-Cola Yamazaki

Nao-Cola Yamazaki was born in Kitakyushu, Japan, in 1978. Yamazaki’s literary debut, “Don’t Laugh at Other People’s Sex Lives,” was published in Japan in 2004 and received the Bungei Prize for new authors. Yamazaki was nominated for the prestigious Akutagawa Prize five times, most recently for “The Beauty of Distance.”