Takashi Wakamatsu
From 27 November to 20 December 2017

Takashi Wakamatsu is a farmer and writer, born in 1976 in São José dos Campos, in the state of São Paulo in Brazil, to Brazilian and Japanese parents. He left school at seventeen to work in Japan for eighteen months. On his return home, he travelled widely before settling in the Amazon region. He has lived there for seven years now, dividing his time between farming, reading, and writing. Takashi Wakamatsu will devote his residency to a translation of Jean-Pierre Brisset, Les origines humaines.