![]() ![]() “You need to be aware that public acceptance for bodybuilding is extremely limited. In the titular and opening story, a woman decides to start bodybuilding after watching a boxing match. Her work stands out for its ability to emphasize the power of paying attention and, conversely, the problems that arise in that attention’s absence. The Lonesome Bodybuilder, a new collection, translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda, pulls together a selection of Motoya’s work written between 20. Around this time, she also began publishing fiction. Six years later, she became the youngest playwright to win the Tsuruya Nanboku Memorial Award. In 2000, at twenty-one-years-old, she founded her own theater company in Tokyo. At the beginning of the millennium, Japanese writer Yukiko Motoya emerged as something of a prodigy. ![]()
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