French translator of Murakami Ryu, Levy Hideo, Takahashi Genichiro and Enjoe Toh, Sylvain Cardonnel was the winner of the Konishi Foundation prize in 2008 for the translation of Yapou (Human Cattle) by Numa Shozo. He is currently working on an anthology of texts by Akasegawa Genpei around the concept of hyperart-tomason. He teaches at Ryukoku University in Kyōto, where he has lived since 1989.
