Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Toshikazu Kawaguchi is a Japanese author, screenwriter and director from Osaka, best known for the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, whose stage version won the Grand Prize of the Suginami Theatre Festival. The novel version was nominated for the Bookseller's Award, and his other books in the series, such as Before We Forget Kindness and Before Your Memory Fades, explore love, loss, grief and kindness. He has also produced, directed and written for the theatre group Sonic Snail.