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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 Kenzaburö Öe.
'Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things' -- Sara Baume 'Magnificently strange' -- Rivka Galchen '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 'What propels Tawada's stories is the unassailable logic of dreams and fairy tales, coupled with verbal energy. Tawada's images resonate simultaneously on different levels' * Village Voice *
