Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German. She has received the Akutagawa Prize among other awards, and is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Bridegroom was a Dog, Scattered all Over the Earth, The Naked Eye and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary.Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburö Öe.

Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things

Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German. She has received the Akutagawa Prize among other awards, and is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Bridegroom was a Dog, Scattered all Over the Earth, The Naked Eye and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary.Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburö Öe.

Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things

Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German. She has received the Akutagawa Prize among other awards, and is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Bridegroom was a Dog, Scattered all Over the Earth, The Naked Eye and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary.Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburö Öe.

Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things