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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 received the Akutagawa, Lessing, Kleist, Noma, Adelbert von Chamisso and Tanizaki prizes as well as the Goethe Medal. She is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Last Children of Tokyo and Scattered All Over the Earth. In 2018 her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award. MARGARET MITSUTANI is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburo Oe (Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate).
Her masterpiece * New York Times * Brilliant, shimmering strangeness -- Rivka Galchen Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things -- Sara Baume Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives us new senses in return -- Madeleine Thien Tawada is, far and away, one of my favourite writers working today - thrilling, discomforting, uncannily beautiful, like no one you have ever read before -- Laura van den Berg
