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SUMMARY:GLOBAL CULTURES: AKANE ARAKI 13 OCT 2026
LOCATION:Cambridge University: West Court Jesus College
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a one-off event with award-winning author Akane AR
 AKI this October. Tickets are available below. The UK is enjoying a surge 
 in popularity of Japanese contemporary literature. Yet\, one particular ge
 nre remains overlooked: crime and mystery. Following the recent trend of J
 apanese works being shortlisted for the Dagger for Crime Fiction in Transl
 ation\, it is clear that we have much more to explore. We’re delighted\,
  therefore\, to be collaborating with the Japan Foundation to bring prize-
 winning author Akane ARAKI to Cambridge for the first time this October\, 
 in celebration of her newly translated debut novel\, Murder at the End of 
 the World. ARAKI\, praised by well-known mystery novelists such as Yukito 
 AYATSUJI and Arisu ARISUGAWA\, is somebody we all should watch out for\, r
 egardless of whether you are a fan of crime novels. ARAKI will be joined i
 n conversation by Dr Victoria Young. Murder at the End of the World An ast
 eroid is hurtling towards Earth\, and the human race has just over two mon
 ths to live. But twenty-three-year-old Haru\, stargazer and chronic worrie
 r\, is still trying to pass her driving test. Then she finds a body in the
  boot of her car: a woman\, stabbed and tortured. There’s a murderer on 
 the loose. And it turns out that Haru’s driving instructor is an ex-cop 
 with a manic devotion to justice. So\, despite the small matter of an impe
 nding apocalypse\, the two women team up to catch the culprit regardless o
 f the danger. After all\, the world’s not quite over yet… About Akane 
 ARAKI Akane ARAKI was born in 1998 in Fukuoka\, Japan and is a graduate of
  Kyushu University’s School of Letters. At 23 years old\, she published 
 her debut novel\, Murder at the End of the World\, after her manuscript wo
 n Japan’s most prestigious award for unpublished crime writers\, the Edo
 gawa Rampo Prize.
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