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Yoko Tawada writes in both Japanese and German. She has received the Akutagawa Prize among other awards, and is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Bridegroom was a Dog, Scattered all Over the Earth, The Naked Eye and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award under the title The Emissary. Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Kenzaburō Ōe.
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 disrupts our perception and reveals the terror and beauty of our world as we get lost in it, and regain our footing through reading her novels -- Kit Fan Tawada's prose is light on its feet, informal while still feeling deliberate, providing delicate and straightforward descriptions of events that are often complicated and bizarre * New York Times * 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
