Yoko Tawada

Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published several books—stories, novels, poems, plays, essays—in both languages. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Goethe Medal, and the National Book Award. New Directions publishes her story collections Where Europe Begins (with a Preface by Wim Wenders) and Facing the Bridge, as well her novels The Naked EyeThe Bridegroom Was a DogMemoirs of a Polar BearThe Emissary, Scattered All over the Earth, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, Suggested in the Stars, and forthcoming in autumn 2025 is Archipelago of the Sun, the final novel in her Scattered trilogy.

 

Yoko Tawada

Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published several books—stories, novels, poems, plays, essays—in both languages. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Goethe Medal, and the National Book Award. New Directions publishes her story collections Where Europe Begins (with a Preface by Wim Wenders) and Facing the Bridge, as well her novels The Naked EyeThe Bridegroom Was a DogMemoirs of a Polar BearThe Emissary, Scattered All over the Earth, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, Suggested in the Stars, and forthcoming in autumn 2025 is Archipelago of the Sun, the final novel in her Scattered trilogy.

 

Books by Yoko Tawada

  • Scattered All Over the Earth

    Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

    E Book, 2022

    A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2018 National Book Award
  • Three Streets

    Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

    E Book, 2022

    Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin
  • Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel

    Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky

    E Book

    A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan by the astonishing Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award
  • Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel

    Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky

    Paperback, 2024

    A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan by the astonishing Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award
  • Suggested in the Stars

    Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

    Paperback, 2024

    On the heels ofScattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada’s new and irresistibleSuggested in the Starscarries on her band of friends’ astonishing and intrepid adventures
  • Suggested in the Stars

    Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

    E Book

    On the heels ofScattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada’s new and irresistibleSuggested in the Starscarries on her band of friends’ astonishing and intrepid adventures
  • Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

    Yoko Tawada, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

    E Book

    An electrifying new side of the National Book Award Winner Yoko Tawada: her first book of essays in English