Modern Japanese Writers

by Jay Rubin (Editor)

This is the first encyclopedia in the Scribner Writers Series to focus on Asian writers and genres. It highlights 25 of the most widely translated Japanese authors, such as Yukio Mishima, Kobo Abe, Junichiro Tanizaki and Fumiko Enchi.

464 pages, Hardcover

First published December 29, 2000

About the author

Jay Rubin is an American academic and translator. He is most notable for being one of the main translators into English of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. He has also written a guide to Japanese, Making Sense of Japanese, and a biographical literary analysis of Murakami.

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is a great, though VERY expensive, introduction to the very best novelists from modern Japan. I'm particularly fond of the chapter on writer Sakaguchi Ango (perhaps because I wrote it).