Draft:Erika Kobayashi

• Comment: So, the titles of all her books published in Japan, and all her exhibitions held in Japan, and both her screenplays, are not in Japanese but in English?
  Is being a member of the Japan Pen Club worthy of note?
  What has been disinterestedly written (by critics, curators, academics, etc) about Kobayashi's works? Hoary (talk) 07:10, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
  
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  Thank you so much for this feedback! I used the translated names of her works for the sake of readability, but I see now that this is probably the wrong approach. I will look at some articles about Japanese authors and follow their approach to the bibliography. Esmb17 (talk) 17:58, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

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• Comment: So, the titles of all her books published in Japan, and all her exhibitions held in Japan, and both her screenplays, are not in Japanese but in English?
  Is being a member of the Japan Pen Club worthy of note?
  What has been disinterestedly written (by critics, curators, academics, etc) about Kobayashi's works? Hoary (talk) 07:10, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
  
  Thank you so much for this feedback! I used the translated names of her works for the sake of readability, but I see now that this is probably the wrong approach. I will look at some articles about Japanese authors and follow their approach to the bibliography. Esmb17 (talk) 17:58, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Erika Kobayashi
Born	(1978-01-24) 24 January 1978 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Author, artist
Education	University of Tokyo Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies
Relatives	Tsukasa Kobayashi (father), Akane Higashiyama (mother)

Erika Kobayashi (小林エリカ, Kobayashi Erika) is a Japanese author, artist, and esperantist. She began publishing her work professionally in 2001. Recently Kobayashi has been working alongside the American translator Brian Bergstrom.

Biography

Erika Kobayashi (小林エリカ, Kobayashi Erika) was born on January 24th 1978 in Tokyo, Japan to Tsukasa Kobayashi and Akane Higashiyama, two Japanese translators of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. She was raised in Ōizumi (大泉), a suburban area within Nerima Ward (練馬区, Nerima-ku) on the outskirts of Tokyo. In 2001 She received her masters degree from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies (東京大学・学際情報学府, Tōkyō Daigaku Gakusai Jōhōgakubu). In 2020 Kobayashi revealed that she has a child.

Publications and Exhibitions

Bibliography

• Never Soapland, Kawade Shobo Shinsha (2001)
• Let’s meet on the day of the airstrike, Magazine House (2002)
• The End and the Beginning, Magazine House, (2006)
• Dear Kitties, Little More (2011)
• Unforgettable, Seidosha (2013)
• Children of Light 1, Little More (2013)
• Breakfast with Madame Curie, Shueisha (2014)
• Children of Light 2, Little More (2016)
• She looks into the mirror, Shueisha (2017)
• Children of Light 3, Little More (2019)
• Trinity, Trinity, Trinity, Shueisha (2019)
• His Last Bow, Kodansha (2021)
• Darkness is The Mother of Light, I am a Silent Woman, Iwasaki Shoten (2021)
• Sunrise, Astra House (2023)

Art Exhibitions

Solo

• Trinity, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano (2017).
• 1F in the Forest of Wild Birds, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo (2019)
• His Last Bow, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London (2019)

Group

• The Radiants, Bortolami Gallery, New York (2015)
• Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2016)
• Women Imagining Rooms: About the Diary of Lady Sarashina, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba (2019)
• Image Narratives: Literature in Japanese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo (2019)
• Hirosaki Encounters, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori (2022)