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Yōko Tawada

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in Tokyo, Japan

March 23, 1960

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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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Average rating: 3.41 · 32,018 ratings · 5,011 reviews · 125 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Children of Tokyo by Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator) 3.41 avg rating — 13,672 ratings — published 2014 — 39 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
	Scattered All Over the Earth (Trilogy #1) by Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator) 3.25 avg rating — 6,821 ratings — published 2018 — 21 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 — 3,945 ratings — published 2011 — 49 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) 3.39 avg rating — 1,834 ratings — published 1993 — 2 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) 3.82 avg rating — 610 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) 3.47 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 2004 — 17 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 — 519 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 — 532 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 — 430 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
	3 Streets by Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator) 3.23 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2022 — 2 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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Scattered All Over the Earth (3 books)
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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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Unhallowed Graves by Nuzo Onoh

7 votes, 33.3%

On the Origin of Species and Other Stories by Bo-Young Kim

6 votes, 28.6%

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada

5 votes, 23.8%

The Dwarves by Markus Heitz

3 votes, 14.3%

21 total votes

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