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Yoko Tawada Novelist Japan
Tawada Yoko was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg, German, when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published several books—stories, novels, poems, plays, essays—in both languages. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Goethe Medal. New Directions publishes her story collections Where Europe Begins with a Preface by Wim Wenders and Facing the Bridge, and her novel of Catherine Deneuve obsession, The Naked Eye.
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