Sosuke Natsukawa is a Japanese physician and novelist. He graduated from the Shinshu University medical school and practises medicine at a hospital in the largely rural prefecture of Nagano. His multi-volume debut novel, Kamisama no Karute (God's Medical Records), has won several prizes and has sold over three million copies in Japan. The Cat Who Saved the Library is the second book in his bestselling series featuring Tiger the talking tabby cat.
Louise Heal Kawai has been a Japanese-English literary translator since 2006.
Her first publication was Shoko Tendo's bestselling autobiography Yakuza Moon. She has gone on to translate a large number of crime fiction titles, including SeishiYokomizo's The Honjin Murders, and works by Soji Shimada and Seicho Matsumoto. Her literary translations include Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami, and Hideo Yokoyama's Seventeen, which was a finalist in the 2018 Believer Book Awards, and longlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Award.
Louise comes from Manchester in the UK, and currently resides in Yokohama.
