Matthew Turner

Matthew Turner was born in Greytown, New Zealand in 1961. After graduating from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, he spent a year studying Japanese language and culture at Nagoya University as a Japanese Government (Monbusho) Scholar. He was later awarded a second Monbusho Scholarship to do postgraduate research at Keio University. He has lived, worked, and traveled widely in Japan. Matthew Turner lives with his wife in Christchurch, where he works as a writer and translator. Sweden is his first novel.