HarperVia Snags Sakamoto Memoir

HarperVia editor Alexa Frank and Jud Laghi at the Jud Laghi Agency have acquired World English/Audio rights to Ryuichi Sakamoto’s memoir Music Sets You Free, translated by Sam Bett, from Ken Mori at Tuttle-Mori Agency.

Never before published in English, the volume will combine Sakamoto’s two Japanese memoirs into one edition and will offer a “poignant meditation on the interplay of art, life, and the inexorable passage of time.” Publication is slated for September 22, 2026.

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