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Yoko Tawada Photo courtesy of the author
Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960 and has lived in Germany since 1982. She studied literature in Tokyo and Hamburg, and writes poems, short stories, essays and plays in both German and Japanese. She has been the recipient of several literary prizes including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (1996), the Tanizaki-Junichiro Prize (2003), and the Goethe Medal (2005).
In 1998 Kodansha published a collection of Yoko Tawada's stories translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, entitled The Bridegroom was a Dog. In 2002 an English language anthology of her work entitled Where Europe Begins, with translations from the German and the Japanese by Susan Bernofsky and Yumi Selden, was published by New Directions. A further volume of stories, Facing the Bridge, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, was published by New Directions in 2007.
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