About

Avery Fischer Udagawa is a Japanese to English translator based in Bangkok. Her translations include the middle grade novels Temple Alley Summer (winner, 2022 ALA Mildred L. Batchelder Award) and The House of the Lost on the Cape by Sachiko Kashiwaba, as well as J-Boys: Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965 by Shogo Oketani.

Featured Work

The House of the Lost on the Cape

2023
The House of the Lost on the Cape

From the author and translator of the Batchelder Award-winning novel Temple Alley Summer comes the moving story of three generations of women adapting to their new home, and its mythical inhabitants, in the tragic aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.

Other Works

  • Temple Alley Summer

    2021

  • J-Boys: Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965

    2011, repub. 2018

Awards and Recognition

  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2022
  • SCBWI Crystal Kite Award 2022