Kerri Sakamoto

Kerri Sakamoto was born in Toronto to a Japanese Canadian family. Her first novel, The Electrical Field, was a finalist for a slew of awards—the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award—and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the Canada–Japan Literary Award. The Toronto Star said “Kerri Sakamoto represents a major new force in the landscape of Canadian fiction.”
 
Kerri’s second novel, One Hundred Million Hearts, also earned widespread critical acclaim. After taking a sabbatical from writing to raise a family, she returns in 2018 with her third novel, Floating City. She has written scripts for independent films as well as writing extensively… Keep Reading