Yoko Tawada

Born in Tokyo in 1960, Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German: she has received the Akutagawa, Kleist, Lessing, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso, and Tanizaki prizes, as well as the Goethe Medal. Her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award. Rivka Galchen in the New York Times Magazine hailed her work as “magnificently strange.”

Yoko Tawada

Born in Tokyo in 1960, Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German: she has received the Akutagawa, Kleist, Lessing, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso, and Tanizaki prizes, as well as the Goethe Medal. Her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award. Rivka Galchen in the New York Times Magazine hailed her work as “magnificently strange.”

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 2022 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