一诗一书 a Poem for a Book - 多和田叶子 Yoko Tawada - Bookniverse

Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960. She was educated at Waseda University and has lived in Germany since 1982. She writes in both German and Japanese and was awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1993 for her short story The Bridegroom Was a Dog. In 1996, she won the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize. In 2005, she was awarded the Goethe Medal, an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. English translations of her fiction include The Bridegroom Was a Dog (Kodansha International, 1998), Where Europe Begins (New Directions, 2002), Facing the Bridge (New Directions, 2007), and The Naked Eye (New Directions, 2009). 多和田叶子， 用日,德双语写作的小说家和诗人，1960 年生于东京。1982 年移居德国， 后来在苏黎世大学获得德国文学博士。1993 年以短篇小说《倒插门的狗女婿》获芥川奖，她1996 年获德国「沙米索文学奖」，并在2005 年获德意志联邦共和国歌德勋章。英译的小说包括《倒插门的狗女婿》(1998),《欧陆开始的地方》(2002),《面对桥梁》(2007),《裸眼》(2009) 等。