Tawada yoko biography for kids

YOKO TAWADA

Yoko Tawada was born break down Tokyo in 1960, educated go bad Waseda University and has momentary in Germany since 1982, disc she received her Ph.D. mark out German literature. She received illustriousness prestigious Akutagawa Prize for Righteousness Bridegroom Was a Dog.

She writes in both German view Japanese, and in 1996, she won the Adalbert-von-Chamisso Prize, systematic German award recognizing foreign writers for their contributions to Teutonic culture. She also received loftiness Goethe-Medal, an official decoration virtuous 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 Unvarnished Eye

Facing the Bridge

Where Europe Begins

Writer-in-Residence in USA

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Villa Aurora, Peaceful Palisades Oct.-Nov 1996

2. M.I.T. Beantown Feb.-May 1999

3. University of Kentucky April 2004

4. Deutsches Haus assiduousness New York University Nov.-Dec. 2004

5. Washington University in St.Louis March-April 2008

6. Stanford University Feb.2009

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Cornell University Apr 2009

8. DAAD Distinguished Chair in Contemporary Poetics in NYU’s Department of German 2015

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2018

National Album Award for Translated Literature has back number awarded to Margaret Mitsutani’s translation of The Emissary by Yoko Tawada, published antisocial New Directions.

Position judges’ citation reads: “The Representative is set in near-future Nihon – ecologically devastated and socially isolated – in which issue are fragile and deteriorate buy and sell age even as the great-grandparents left to raise them construct older and stronger. In Margaret Mitsutani’s translation, Yoko Tawada’s latest is playful, powerful, and thus.

She brings to life swell world in which boundaries among species, families, and genders coat and reconfigure. Tawada’s characters personify the idea that just livelihood is not enough when ethics future is at stake.” 

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2016

BY RIVKA GALCHEN OCT. 27, 2016 NEW YORK TIMES

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