Japanese Author Nao-cola Yamazaki Tours Six UK Cities in October 2026

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A Literary Tour With Six Local Stops

Nao-cola Yamazaki’s UK tour runs October 18–24, organized by Japan Foundation London. It takes the author into literary festivals, independent bookshops and a university setting. For readers encountering Japanese writing in translation, the itinerary offers several places to meet the person behind the books rather than treating London as the only possible point of access.

The Books Behind the Conversations

The tour highlights Don’t Laugh at Other People’s Sex Lives and Beautiful Distance, both available in English. The first follows an art student’s relationship with an older tutor; the second centers on a narrator whose wife is terminally ill. These starting points open questions about intimacy, distance and how people understand one another. The tour listing identifies Yamazaki as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

Where the Tour Goes

October 18: Cheltenham Literature Festival. October 19: Manchester Literature Festival. October 21: Daunt Books on Marylebone High Street, London. October 22: Pembroke College, University of Oxford. October 23: Storysmith Books, Bristol. October 24: Off the Shelf Festival of Words, Sheffield. Each is a separate stop; the schedule does not list an October 20 event.

Attending a Conversation

The Japan Foundation listing says registration is required and provides a booking link for each stop. Follow the link for your chosen venue to confirm its current arrangements; a tour announcement alone does not establish remaining seats. No uniform price or admission policy is assumed across the six hosts.

Japanese Literature Through Local Reading Communities

Moving between festivals, shops and a college puts contemporary Japanese literature into different British reading communities. Translation makes the books accessible; the tour adds a chance for direct discussion around them. For readers following TBM’s Japan-related cultural events, this is a literary counterpart to the cinema gatherings covered in the Kotatsu and Ireland articles.

What To Know

Moving between festivals, shops and a college puts contemporary Japanese literature into different British reading communities. Translation makes the books accessible; the tour adds a chance for direct discussion around them. For readers following TBM’s Japan-related cultural events, this is a literary counterpart to the cinema gatherings covered in the Kotatsu and Ireland articles.

Cheltenham, Manchester, London, Oxford, Bristol and Sheffield, United Kingdom

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山崎ナオコーラさんが10月18日から24日まで英国6都市を訪問します。文学祭や書店、大学で作家に会うイベントが開かれます。