About the Author

Asako Yuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1981. She won the All Yomimono Award for New Writers for her story, ’Forget Me, Not Blue’, which appeared in her debut, Shuuten No Anoko, published in 2010. She won the Yamamoto Shūgorō Award in 2015 for Nile Perch No Joshikai. She has been nominated multiple times for the Naoko Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio and film. Butter won Waterstones Book of the Year 2024, as well as the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award the same year. In 2025 it was awarded Fiction Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards and was shortlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger Award.