Sam Bett
Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. His translation of Yukio Mishima’s Star won the 2019–2020 Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.
Sam Bett
Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. His translation of Yukio Mishima’s Star won the 2019–2020 Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.
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 Human
The 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
The Beggar Student
Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett
E Book
For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai's darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer


