Saki Kawashiro was born in Tokyo, Japan. An avid reader, after graduating from college she worked as a bookseller in Fukuoka, in Southern Japan. While manager of the store’s cafe she invented a recipe for the café menu—“My Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Butter Chicken Curry”—which included a vignette about their breakup, which went viral. Author Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Before the Coffee Gets Cold) made an appearance at her bookstore and Mr. Kawaguchi’s editor inspired Saki to write a novel about her adventures, and she became Saki’s editor. The result is The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee, which is Saki’s first novel.
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Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin & Charles Dickens & Edgar Allan Poe & Emilio Salgari & Franz Kafka & Jack London & Joseph Conrad & Roald Dahl & Ernest Hemingway & Máximo Gorki & Saki & Pío Baroja & Benito Pérez Galdós & Henry James & Herman Melville & Guy de Maupassant & Rudyard Kipling & James Fenimore Cooper & William Hope Hodgson & Washington Irving & Bram Stoker & Daniel Defoe & Nathaniel Hawthorne & Emilia Pardo Bazán & Robert Louis Stevenson & Stephen Crane & Antón Chéjov & Rainer Maria Rilke & Winston Churchill & Marcel Schwob & Anthony Trollope & Fernando Colón & Richard Middleton & Lev Nikoláievich Tolstói & Wilhelm Hauff & Ivan Sergueevich Turguenev & Richard Henry Dana & Francis Scott Fitzgerald & Jules Verne & Daniel Tyerman & Fritdjof Nansen & George Bennet & Hugh Crow & Joshua Slocum & Liam O’Flaherty & Olaudah Equiano
Narraciones terroríficas - Vol. 7
Charles Dickens & Robert Bloch & Saki & H. P. Lovecraft & Wilkie Collins & Robert Arthur & Frank Belknap Long & Marcel Brion & Alfonso Álvarez Villar & Félix Martí Ibáñez & Janet Frame & Jonathan Curling & Kate Barlay & Leslie Poles Hartley & Michael Asquith & Robert Aickman & Rosemary Timperley & William Sansom
Narraciones terroríficas - Vol. 2
Algernon Blackwood & Saki & Guy de Maupassant & Rudyard Kipling & Wilkie Collins & Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu & Oscar Wilde & Ambrose Bierce & Pedro Antonio de Alarcón & Jean Ray & Antón Chéjov & Auguste Villiers de L’Isle-Adam & Fitz James O´Brien & Prosper Mérimée & Ivan Sergueevich Turguenev & John M. Sitan & John Metcalfe
Narraciones terroríficas - Vol. 1
Edgar Allan Poe & Saki & Guy de Maupassant & Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu & Washington Irving & Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer & Jean Ray & O. Henry & Margaret Oliphant & Antón Chéjov & E. T. A. Hoffmann & Frederick Marryat & Ramón María del Valle-Inclán & Violet Hunt & Alekseï Konstantinovich Tolstoï & Edith Nesbit & Guadalupe Dueñas & José Maria Eça de Queirós & Kan Pao & Pu Songling & Yakumo Koizumi
Felices pesadillas
Arthur Conan Doyle & Arthur Machen & Charles Dickens & Edgar Allan Poe & Franz Kafka & H. G. Wells & Richard Matheson & Robert E. Howard & Saki & H. P. Lovecraft & Guy de Maupassant & Rudyard Kipling & Wilkie Collins & E. F. Benson & William Hope Hodgson & Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu & Honoré de Balzac & Washington Irving & Bram Stoker & Ambrose Bierce & Horacio Quiroga & Nathaniel Hawthorne & Robert Louis Stevenson & Théophile Gautier & E. T. A. Hoffmann & Pilar Pedraza & M. R. James & Charles Nodier & W. W. Jacobs & Alexandre Chatrian & Alexandre Dumas & Fitz James O´Brien & Francis Marion Crawford & Hugh Walpole & Richard Middleton & William Butler Yeats & Émile Erckmann
Cuentos de tatuajes
Hjalmar Söderberg & Roald Dahl & Saki & Heimito Von Doderer & W. W. Jacobs & Egon Erwin Kisch & William Edmund Barrett & Frederick Ames Coates & Arthur Tuckerman & Albert Payson Terhune & John Chilton & Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews & T. W. Speight & James Payn & Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
Cuentos de Navidad
Alphonse Daudet & Arthur Conan Doyle & Charles Dickens & Leopoldo Alas Clarín & Paul Auster & Thomas Hardy & Truman Capote & Ray Bradbury & James Joyce & Saki & Guy de Maupassant & Bret Harte & Hans Christian Andersen & Dino Buzzati & Léon Bloy & Nathaniel Hawthorne & Emilia Pardo Bazán & Nikolái Leskov & Dylan Thomas & Robert Louis Stevenson & Fiódor Dostoyevski & O. Henry & Luigi Pirandello & Antón Chéjov & E. T. A. Hoffmann & Hermanos Grimm & August Strindberg & Grazia Deledda & G. K. Chesterton & Anthony Trollope & Ramón María del Valle-Inclán & Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont & Sarah Orne Jewett & Amalie Skram & Gustav Wied & Theodor Storm & Zacharias Topelius
Crímenes de autor
Katherine Mansfield & Arthur Machen & Franz Kafka & Guillaume Apollinaire & Jack London & Joseph Conrad & Thomas Hardy & Edith Wharton & Saki & Mark Twain & Benito Pérez Galdós & Guy de Maupassant & Rudyard Kipling & Emilia Pardo Bazán & Robert Louis Stevenson & Walt Whitman & Stephen Crane & O. Henry & Antón Chéjov
Antología universal del relato fantástico
Adolfo Bioy Casares & Algernon Blackwood & Arthur Machen & Charles Dickens & Edgar Allan Poe & Jorge Luis Borges & Javier Marías & Julio Cortázar & Giovanni Papini & Saki & H. P. Lovecraft & Silvina Ocampo & Henry James & Guy de Maupassant & Lord Dunsany & Rudyard Kipling & Wilkie Collins & E. F. Benson & Gustav Meyrink & Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu & Honoré de Balzac & Alejo Carpentier & Dino Buzzati & Ambrose Bierce & Hanns Heinz Ewers & Charlotte Perkins Gilman & Shirley Jackson & Paul Bowles & Théophile Gautier & Cristina Fernández Cubas & O. Henry & Margaret Oliphant & E. T. A. Hoffmann & Leopoldo Lugones & Rosa Chacel & Auguste Villiers de L’Isle-Adam & M. R. James & Vernon Lee & May Sinclair & Fitz James O´Brien & Jun’ichirō Tanizaki & Leonid Andréiev & Oliver Onions & Ivan Sergueevich Turguenev & Danilo Kiš & Aleksandr S. Pushkin & Ann Bridge & Robert Aickman & Edward George Bulwer-Lytton & María Luisa Bombal & Jacobo Siruela & Francisco Tario & Naiyer Masud & Nathaniel Hawt & Robert Hichens