Clara Kumagi in conversation with Mina Ikemoto Ghosh - Covent Garden

Join authors Clara Kumagai and Mika Ikemoto Ghosh as they discuss the release of Songs for Ghosts!

Clara Kumagai is from Canada, Japan and Ireland. She is a Yoto Carnegie 2024 nominee and winner of the KPMG Children’s Book Ireland Book of the Year 2024. Clara’s debut Catfish Rolling was chosen by The Irish Independent as a Top 20 Irish Kid’s Book of 2023, as well as a Best Book of 2023 by The Irish Times, The Observer and Waterstones.

Mina Ikemoto Ghosh was raised on a diet of Japanese murder-mysteries and British fantasy novels, her writing often ends up in the shadowy zone between the two. After studying STEM with a BA in Natural Sciences, she entertained family by embarking on misadventures in writing, illustration and freelance translation instead. She has an MSc in Japanese Studies from the University of Oxford, with focuses on classical Japanese literature and contemporary anthropology, and uses these as sources of inspiration for her stories. She was shortlisted the two times she entered the UK Manga Jiman in 2019 (3rd) and 2021 (placing 2nd in the main category, and 1st in the flash comic category).

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