Sam Bett
Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator whose credits include Star by Yukio Mishima. Working with David Boyd, he co-translated the Mieko Kawakami novels Heaven, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize; All the Lovers in the Night, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; and Breasts and Eggs.
Sam Bett
Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator whose credits include Star by Yukio Mishima. Working with David Boyd, he co-translated the Mieko Kawakami novels Heaven, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize; All the Lovers in the Night, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; and Breasts and Eggs.
Books by Sam Bett
Star
Yukio Mishima, Sam Bett
Paperback, 2019
For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker)
Winner of the...
Star
Yukio Mishima, Sam Bett
E Book, 2019
For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker)
Winner of the...
The Flowers of Buffoonery
Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett
Paperback, 2023
For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel toNo Longer HumanThe Flowers of Buffoonery
Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett
E Book
For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel toNo Longer HumanThe Beggar Student
Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett
Paperback, 2024
For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai's darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer