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    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 Eye, The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The 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 Eye, The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The 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

    • The Naked Eye

      Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky

      Paperback, 2009

      “Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”—Michael Porter, The New York Times

    • The Bridegroom Was a Dog

      Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

      Paperback, 2013

      Internationally acclaimed author Yoko Tawada's most famous — and bizarre — tale in a stand-alone, New Directions Pearl edition.

    • Memoirs of a Polar Bear

      Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky

      Paperback, 2016

      The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers—who happen to be polar bears

    • The Emissary

      Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

      Paperback, 2018

      Winner of 2018 National Book Award in Translated Literature

      Library Journal Best Books of 2018

      Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays...

    • The Bridegroom Was a Dog

      Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

      E Book, 2012

      Internationally acclaimed author Yoko Tawada's most famous — and bizarre — tale in a stand-alone, New Directions Pearl edition.

    • The Naked Eye

      Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky

      E Book, 2013

      “Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”—Michael Porter, The New York Times

    • Memoirs of a Polar Bear

      Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky

      E Book, 2016

      The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers—who happen to be polar bears

    • The Emissary

      Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

      E Book, 2018

      Winner of 2018 National Book Award in Translated Literature

      Library Journal Best Books of 2018

      Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays...

    • Three Streets

      Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

      Hardback, 2022

      Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin

    • Scattered All Over the Earth

      Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani

      Paperback, 2022

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

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