Yoko Tawada
1960
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: poetry
country of citizenship: Japan
educated at: Waseda University, University of Hamburg, University of Zurich
occupation: novelist, playwright, writer, essayist, Germanist, literary scholar, translator, poet
award received: Gunzou Prize for New Writers, Akutagawa Prize, Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, Bunkamura Les Deux Magots Literature Award, Tanizaki Prize, Sei Itō Award, Goethe Medal, Murasaki Shikibu Prize, Noma Literary Prize, Yomiuri Prize, Erlanger Literaturpreis für Poesie als Übersetzung, Art Encouragement Prizes, Carl Zuckmayer Medal, Japan Foundation Award, Asahi Prize, Medal with Purple Ribbon, Kleist Prize
student of: Sigrid Weigel
official website: yokotawada.de
Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German. Tawada has won numerous literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Goethe Medal, the Kleist Prize, and a National Book Award. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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