Kerri Sakamoto, born and raised in Toronto, is a writer of
fiction with an international reputation for film and visual arts criticism. Her parents and
grandparents were interned in camps during the war. After earning her master's degree from
New York University, she was a scriptwriter for independent films. She is author of
The Electrical Field (Vintage Canada, 1998, Knopf, 1997) and One Hundred
Million Hearts (Vintage, 2004). Sakamoto was winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers
Prize for the Best First Book. For her second book, Kerri, a sansei, made three trips to Japan
for research, including a three-month fellowship in Tokyo. She currently resides in Toronto.
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