Dirty Hearts: The History of Shindō Renmei

Fernando Morais (b. 1946) is a Brazilian journalist, writer, and politician. He is the author of nine books, which include his biographies of Communist operative Olga Benário Prestes, media mogul Assis Chateaubriand, Brazilian Air Force Marshal Casimiro Montenegro Filho, and best-selling author Paulo Coelho. His own works have sold over two million copies in nineteen countries, and four of his books have been made into films. He received the Prêmio Esso three times and Prêmio Abril four times for his journalistic work. Corações Sujos (Dirty Hearts, 2000) was awarded the Jabuti Award, the Brazilian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, in the category of Best Nonfiction Book of the Year in 2001.

Seth Jacobowitz is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of World Languages & Literatures at Texas State University, USA. He is the author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (Harvard Asia Center, 2015), which won the 2017 International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities. He is also the translator of the Edogawa Rampo Reader (Kurodahan Press, 2008).