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Heather Dixon

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Heather Dixon is from St. Helens in North West England. She has lived in rural Japan since May, 2000. Heather is a Japanese/English translator and an award-winning writer and publisher of graded readers for learners of English. She won the 2020 Language Learner Literature Award. She has a BMus (Hons) degree in Music, an MA in Philosophy, and a 4th dan black belt in karate. In her spare time, Heather enjoys studying languages and reading.

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“All the literary masters had depression”

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I haven’t been keeping up with my writing (or blogging), but I have been reading. I recently finished a Japanese book called 「 文豪はみんな、うつ」, which translates as “all the literary masters had depression”. It was written by a psychiatrist called Iwanami Akira. The book introduces ten famous Japanese literary figures from the Meiji to Showa periods, and det

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“It's Friday afternoon and I'm alone. Rain drips from the eaves, a reminder that there is a world outside this room.”
Heather Dixon, In the Shadows of Mountains

“I light a cigarette. Will I be judged for what I'm about to do?”
Heather Dixon, In the Shadows of Mountains

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
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“My past is everything I failed to be.”
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“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
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