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Yoko Tawada

Yoko Tawada is the author of many books, including Memoirs of a Polar Bear. She writes in Japanese and German and has won the 1993 Akutagawa Prize, the 2016 Kleist Prize and the 2017 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. ‘The Last Children of Tokyo’ is taken from her new novel with the same title, forthcoming from Portobello Books in the UK. It will be published as The Emissary by New Directions in the US.

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The Last Children of Tokyo

Yoko Tawada

‘Encountering a real animal – not just its name – would have set Mumei’s heart on fire.’ Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.

Fiction | Issue 142
Fiction | Issue 142

Memoirs of a Polar Bear

Yoko Tawada

‘I was perfectly content with my new life until I began to write my autobiography.’

Fiction | Issue 142
Fiction | Issue 142

To Zagreb

Yoko Tawada

‘You didn’t know where you wanted to end up, had never considered how much time you had left.’

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