Fusako Innami has been named runner-up for the British Comparative Literature Association's inaugural First Book Prize.

The judges said that Touching the Unreachable is "an exciting book that examines literary and textual descriptions of vision and touch as acts of translation and mediation across the senses, particularly when vision and description substitute for touch. It is a theoretically sophisticated study that offers an insightful discussion of relationality through the skin and interactions of the body and language in the writings of Kawabata Yasunari, Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Yoshiyuki Junnosuke, and Matsuura Rieko."

Fusako's book appeared in 2021 with Liverpool University Press.

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