Emi Yagi, born in 1988, is a Japanese novelist and editor from Nagano Prefecture. Her debut novel, “Kushin Techo,” published in English as “Diary of a Void,” won the Dazai Osamu Prize in 2020. It follows a woman burdened with menial tasks at work because of her gender who impulsively claims to be pregnant, setting off changes in how her colleagues treat her and in how she experiences her own life.
