Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
Simon Rowe
Works of: Fiction
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of fifteen tales about people with problems and the clever—and unorthodox—ways they use to resolve them.
Good Night Papa, the titular story, was adapted to screenplay and won the Asian Short Screenplay Contest (U.S., 2013). It was judged by Michelle Yeoh (Crazy Rich Asians, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) and produced by JBF Entertainment as a short film in 2014.
The Pilgrim, in screenplay form, reached the top eight in the HollyShorts Film Festival (2014) and the semifinals of the Scriptapalooza short screenplay contest in Hollywood, L.A (2016).
The Hunting Party was shortlisted for the Big Issue Fiction Edition (Australia, 2015) and Baby Grand for the Overland Victoria University Prize (Australia, 2016).
Tuna Steak appears in Flesh: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology, which was launched at the London Book Fair (2015), and the final story, a short screenplay called The Foonabiki Barbers, reached the semifinals of the HollyShorts Film Festival in Hollywood, L.A. (2015).
Other books by Simon Rowe
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