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Yōko Tawada

Born

in Tokyo, Japan

March 23, 1960

Genre

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Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German.

Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German literature. She received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich. In 1987 she published Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts—Anata no iru tokoro dake nani mo nai (A Void Only Where You Are), a collection of poems in a German and Japanese bilingual edition.

Tawada's Missing Heels received the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 1991, and The Bridegroom Was a Dog r ...more

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Yōko Tawada’s books

Average rating: 3.41 · 34,071 ratings · 5,397 reviews · 127 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Children of Tokyo by Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator) 3.40 avg rating — 14,255 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scattered All Over the Earth (Scattered All Over the Earth #1) by Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator) 3.25 avg rating — 7,341 ratings — published 2018 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Polar Bear 3.37 avg rating — 4,081 ratings — published 2011 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator) 3.38 avg rating — 2,047 ratings — published 1993 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Europe Begins by Yōko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky (Translator), Yumi Selden (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 637 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Naked Eye by Yōko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky (Translator) 3.46 avg rating — 619 ratings — published 2004 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yōko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky (Translator) 3.56 avg rating — 585 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fruwająca dusza by Yōko Tawada, Barbara Słomka (Translator) 3.35 avg rating — 551 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Подозрительные пассажиры твоих ночных поездов by Yōko Tawada, Александр Николаевич Мещеряков (Translator), Еко Тавада 3.61 avg rating — 433 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suggested in the Stars (Scattered All Over the Earth #2) by Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator) 3.30 avg rating — 394 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Yōko Tawada

Scattered All Over the Earth (3 books)
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Yōko Tawada,

Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)

3.25 avg rating — 7,854 ratings

Quotes by Yōko Tawada (?)

“I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.”
― Yōko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear

tags: chit-chat, communication, cultural-differences, polar-bears, weather

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“Being able to see the end of anything gave him a tremendous sense of relief. As a child he had assumed the goal of medicine was to keep bodies alive forever; he had never considered the pain of not being able to die.”
― Yōko Tawada, The Emissary

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“Mold started to grow in my ears because no one ever spoke to me”
― Yōko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear

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What should we read in October and November?

Top two books via RANKED CHOICE win as October and November reads. Take a look at the thread for more info about books. Please check your local availability/price comfort before you vote. Again, apologies for going AWOL, but it slowed us down. Vote by Friday so people have time to get book copies?

Vote for your top choice in the polling. If you want, rank your other choices in the comments. I will tabulate if Bill will set up the spreadsheet. (Thanks, Bill!)

Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder); 288 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability—newly released in August; no obvious CWs

7 votes 50.0%

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada (trans. Margaret Mitsutani; ~230 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; no obvious CWs

4 votes 28.6%

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura (trans. Philip Gabriel); ~350 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW bullying

2 votes 14.3%

In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami; ~200 pages, depending on the edition; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW for significant violence

1 vote 7.1%

Journey Under the Midnight Sun aka (Under the Midnight Sun in North America) by Keigo Higashino (trans. Alexander O. Smith); ~530 pages; US and UK availability on Bookshop.org; CW—it's a murder mystery

0 votes 0.0%

Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe (trans. Kerim Yasar); 155 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW misogyny, generally creepy male protagonist

0 votes 0.0%

14 total votes

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