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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 and The Last Children of Tokyo. In 2018 her novel The Emissary won the National Book Award. SUSAN BERNOFSKY is the prizewinning translator of Robert Walser, as well as novels and poetry by Yoko Tawada, Jenny Erpenbeck, Uljana Wolf, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and others. Her biography of Walser, Clairvoyant of the Small, appeared in 2021. A Guggenheim, Cullman, and Berlin Prize fellow, she teaches literary translation at the Columbia University School of the Arts.
''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 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 ''Every Yoko Tawada novel pulls the ground out from under us, but gives new senses in return'' - Madeleine Thien ''Reading Tawada is an immensely fun and occasionally bewildering experience... A blisteringly imaginative writer'' - Guardian
