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Suzanne Kamata writer

Profile: American writer Suzanne Kamata has lived in Tokushima Prefecture since 1988. She teaches English as a foreign language to high school and college students, and is the author of Losing Kei, a novel for adults, The Beautiful One Has Come: Stories, and editor of three anthologies. Kamata's stories for young people can be found in Cicada, Hunger Mountain, Ladybug, Skipping Stones, and the anthologies Summer Shorts (Blooming Tree Press), Anthology: Realistic Fiction from Cicada (Carus), and Tomo - Friendship Through Fiction: Teen Stories From Japan (Stone Bridge Press). Her story "Pilgrimage" was awarded the SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for fiction.

Playing for Papa, her first picture book for children, was published in 2008 by Topka Press with illustrations by Yuka Hamano.
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Contact: info(at)suzannekamata(dot)com

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The Beautiful One Has Come: Stories
Writer: Suzanne Kamata
Publisher: Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-936214-38-9

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Playing for Papa/En el equipo de papa
Writer: Suzanne Kamata
Translator: Lucia Moreno Velo
Illustrator: Yuka Hamano
Publisher: Topka Books
Date: 2008
ISBN: 978-84-935239-9-2

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