Kentaro Utsugi

Kentaro Utsugi is from Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture. He grew up in a house surrounded by books, and before he knew it, he started writing novels. His first novel, The Forest Calls, was published in 2021. The Nine Lives of a Bookshop Cat won the Japan Fantasy Novel Grand Prize 2024, judged, among others, by the author Tomihiko Morimi.