Fushimi Noriaki

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Embarked on a ambitious project this week ... I bought a literary novel called "Majo no musuko" 魔女の息子, "A witch's son" (2003) by Fushimi Noriaki, a gay activist and literary critic who has already written "Private Gay Life" (1991) and is also a contributor to several main stream papers e.g The Japan Times as well as the editor of the Gay magazine "Queer Japan Returned". It has won the Bungei prize for fiction. It's in Japanese and it's difficult. Some of the words are especially difficult to trace (mostly the sexual ones) but I do consider this a serious challenge and should be able to pick up some sexual innuendo and slang going along. Mark J. McLelland, a postdoctorate fellow of the University of Queensland has mentioned him as one of the main gay writers in present day Japan.
I have never read a book in Japanese so this is a first for me.

Planted some coriander seeds last february and they are flourishing......so there will be a lot more Thai curries prepared in this kitchen the coming months.