Bilingual Author Tawada Yōko: Crossing Political and Linguistic Borders

Yuki no renshūsei (Memoirs of a Polar Bear), originally published in Japanese in 2011.

The Emissary, the 2018 translation of Kentōshi.

Tawada Yōko celebrates winning an American National Book Award for the English translation of her novel Kentōshi (trans. The Emissary) on November 15, 2018. Taken at Waseda University, Tokyo. (© Jiji)

One book, two covers: the German and Japanese title pages of Tawada’s first book, published in 1987, Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts (Nothing Only Where You Are).

The 1988 novella Wo Europa anfängt (trans. Where Europe Begins).

The original 2014 edition of Kentōshi (trans. The Emissary).

The 2018 novel Chikyū ni chiribamerarete (Encrusted in the Earth).

The 2020 novel Hoshi ni honomekasarete (Written in the Stars).