British lyricist/poet Chris Mosdell has been awarded the Yuki Hayashi-Newkirk Poetry Prize; the Tokyo Music Festival’s Gold Prize; the Grand Prize for Poetry at the Boulder, Colorado, Festival of Literature; and was the recipient of Japan’s 2023 Classics Day Cultural Foundation Award presided over by Her Imperial Highness Princess Akiko of Mikasa. His lyrics have been recorded by Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Sarah Brightman, Boy George, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Yellow Magic Orchestra, amongst others, and included in the anime soundtracks to Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, and Mobile Suit Gundam. In collaboration with the London City Ballet, Mosdell also wrote the scenario for the dance-drama Amaterasu––based on the deity of the Japanese myth cycle––that was performed at the West End’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
