Kaho Nakayama (writer)
Kaho Nakayama (Japanese: 中山 可穂, born 1960) is a Japanese writer. Her debut novel, ''The Stoop-Shouldered Prince'' (猫背の王子, Nekoze no Ouji), was published in 1993, and her subsequent novels have won and been nominated for a number of Japanese literary awards including the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize. In the 2015 edition of the ''Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia'', she was identified as "Japan's only contemporary self-identified lesbian novelist". Her short story, "Sparkling Rain", was the titular short story of Barbara Summerhawk's anthology of queer Japanese women writers, '' Sparkling Rain: and other fiction from Japan of women who love women.'' This short story, and a selection from her novel ''Sentimental Education'', translated by Allison Markin Powell, are her only works to have been translated into English. Life and works Nakayama was born in Nagoya in 1960 and graduated from the Faculty of Education at Waseda University's Department of E ...
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