Sam Bett

Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Freeman’s and The New York Times. A winner of the JUSFC Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, he has translated fiction by Osamu Dazai, Izumi Suzuki, Fuminori Nakamura, Yoko Ogawa, NISIOISIN, and Yukio Mishima. Working with David Boyd, he co-translated the Mieko Kawakami novels Heaven, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize; All the Lovers in the Night, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; and Breasts and Eggs. As the translator of The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani, he was awarded a CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation. Sam holds an MFA in Fiction from Bennington. His first novel is a shark-fishing romance.