Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Toshikazu Kawaguchi is a Japanese literary fiction author born in 1971 in Osaka, Japan. He was formerly the director, producer, and writer for “Sonic Snail,” a small theatrical group. As a playwright, he wrote several critically acclaimed titles that include “Family Time,” “Sunset Song,” and “Couple.” He adapted his bestselling novel “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” from the play “1110 Productions” that was the winner of the grand prize at the 10th Suginami Drama Festival. The novel has sold more than 800,000 copies in his native Japan and has also been adapted into a movie. Kawaguchi has sold the rights to the novel in more than nine jurisdictions including Turkey, China, Hungary, Germany, and the Czech Republic. “Das Magische Café from Droemer Knaur” the German version of the novel has been highly successful as had been the Chinese edition in Taiwan.