TAKATSU

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Flagship Novel: http://espressolove.tk - Dystopian, Magical-Realism, Existential

Takatsu, the writer of contemporary literary fiction, award-winning pioneer of the “cell phone novel” movement, musician and English Literature student, has brought the Japanese youth cultural phenomenon of online serialized minimalistic poetic narrative (CPN, averaging 100 words/chapter) to the English speaking world and organized the forefront of an online writing community (Textnovel) for the past 5 years through “Secondhand Memories” (2009) - which has won Editor's and Reader’s Choice awards, surpassed 90k words, 50k unique views, accumulated thousands of readers, mentioned in various sources and placed as comprehension exercises in an English textbook in Japan, much anticipated by fans to be released in print by Sakura Publishing in late 2014. 

The author, passionate about philosophy, the human condition and the world around, currently continues to work on fiction of more mature depth and meaning such as “Move”, (2013, CPN, Textnovel) a sentimental journey of a struggling musician, as well as “Espresso Love” (2014), an ambitious dystopian magical-realism prose novel which satirizes and challenges the philosophy of subjective perception, socio-political system, digital landscape, capitalist mechanism and consumer culture around.

He is influenced by Japanese entertainment and names such as Murakami, Hemingway, Banana Yoshimoto, Orwell, Kafka, DeLillo, Emerson, Mumford, Jung, Freud, Berkeley, Hegel, and Marx.


Main Site: http://takatsu.wordpress.com

Info about cell phone novels http://textnovel.com/keitai (desktop)

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