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- Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German. Former writer-in-residence at MIT and Stanford University.
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Former writer-in-residence at MIT and Stanford University. Tawada has won numerous literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Goethe Medal, the Kleist Prize, and a National Book Award. Early life and education.
Feb 21, 2022 · The Novelist Yoko Tawada Conjures a World Between Languages. Writing in Japanese and German, Tawada explores borderlands in which people and words have lost their moorings. By Julian Lucas....
Nov 16, 2018 · Yoko Tawada (b. 1960), who writes in Japanese and German and has been translated around the world, studied Russian literature in Tokyo before hotfooting it to Hamburg: “Russian writing was just the greatest, but I couldn’t study in the Soviet Union for political reasons, so I got a job in Hamburg.”
- A Writer in Constant Motion
- Creativity and New Frontiers in Two Languages
- People and Cultures Across Borders
On the day the Nobel Prize in Literature was announced in early October 2019, Tawada Yōko was on a visit to Brazil. Born in Tokyo, Tawada has lived in Germany for decades and is now based in Berlin. Her novels, written in both Japanese and German, have been translated into more than 30 languages. On this occasion, she was in Brazil for an event to ...
Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960 and moved to pre-unification Germany in 1982, shortly after graduating from university. She worked for a book distribution company for a while, before publishing her first volume Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts(Nothing Only Where You Are) in 1987 from a publisher in Tübingen. The book’s unusual binding allowed it to...
The original 2014 edition of Kentōshi (trans.The Emissary). Throughout her career, Tawada has broken new ground with each book she has published. In recent years, she has embarked on yet another period of transition, publishing the first two volumes of what she says will eventually form a trilogy of novels. The first part Chikyū ni chiribamerarete ...
YOKO TAWADA. Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, educated at Waseda University and has lived in Germany since 1982, where she received her Ph.D. in German literature. She received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for The Bridegroom Was a Dog.
Oct 27, 2016 · The Profound Empathy of Yoko Tawada. Through the stories of polar bears, dogs and other animals, the novelist makes us see “the other” — including ourselves.
Apr 1, 2020 · Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo and has lived in Germany since 1982. Her books have been widely celebrated in both Japan and Germany, receiving the Akutagawa Prize, the Adalbert-von-Chamisso Prize, the Goethe-Medal and the Kleist Prize, among many other honors.
