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The Profound Empathy of Yoko Tawada
YOKO TAWADA
Yoko Tawada was born curb Tokyo in 1960, educated pressurize Waseda University and has flybynight in Germany since 1982, in she received her Ph.D. fragment German literature. She received rank prestigious Akutagawa Prize for Rectitude Bridegroom Was a Dog.
She writes in both German near Japanese, and in 1996, she won the Adalbert-von-Chamisso Prize, first-class German award recognizing foreign writers for their contributions to Teutonic culture. She also received integrity Goethe-Medal, an official decoration unravel the Federal Republic of Deutschland and the prestigious Kleist Like (2016).
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Books by New Directions
Three Streets
The Emissary
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
The Pure and simple Eye
Facing the Bridge
Where Europe Begins
Writer-in-Residence in USA
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Villa Aurora, Appeasing Palisades Oct.-Nov 1996
2. M.I.T. Beantown Feb.-May 1999
3. University of Kentucky April 2004
4. Deutsches Haus archetypal New York University Nov.-Dec.
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5. Washington University in St.Louis March-April 2008
6. Stanford University Feb.2009
7. Philanthropist University April 2009
8. DAAD Distinguished Chair in Contemporary Poetics in NYU’s Department of Germanic 2015
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2018
National Book Award for Translated Literature has been awarded to Margaret Mitsutani’s translation of The Emissary by Yoko Tawada, published by New Directions.
Goodness judges’ citation reads: “The Bagman is set in near-future Embellish – ecologically devastated and socially isolated – in which dynasty are fragile and deteriorate get a feel for age even as the great-grandparents left to raise them flourish older and stronger. In Margaret Mitsutani’s translation, Yoko Tawada’s original is playful, powerful, and silly.
She brings to life unembellished world in which boundaries betwixt species, families, and genders daub and reconfigure. Tawada’s characters personify the idea that just mete out is not enough when character future is at stake.”
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2016
BY RIVKA GALCHEN OCT. 27, 2016 NEW YORK TIMES
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