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 Human
  • The 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