![]() ![]() ![]() His bestselling novel series Before The Coffee Gets Cold which mesmerised people worldwide with its time travel journey into the past and the future, has been translated into 35 languages and sold more than 3.2 million copies. Kawaguchi, 52, was here in November last year to attend the George Town Literary Festival, an international literary festival held in Penang, and a public talk organised by the Japan Foundation at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Kuala Lumpur. “I spotted Christmas trees on display in Malaysia which felt odd because in Japan, Christmas is associated with the coldest time of the year and so Malaysia is really pleasant and I’d rather stay here as I’ve never been fond of the cold weather in wintry Japan,” he said in an interview. ![]() He described his first impression of Malaysia during the Christmas season as the feeling of eating warm ice cream. Toshikazu Kawaguchi, an acclaimed Japanese novelist, playwright and theatre director, looks to the warm weather in Malaysia to continue empowering people with his love and imagination. ![]()
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