My friend Alta sent this link about Japanese bookstore Junkudo’s trial run of a sleepover for customers at one of their Tokyo branches. Apparently today is the last day to apply online. I can’t...
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As one of the bookend events leading up to the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 21st, The Bridge Series launches its first co-presentation with the PEN America Translation Committee,...
It’s that time of year again… Literary award season. And 2014 looks like the year of the Japanese woman…
PEN America has announced the schedule of events for the 10th anniversary of their PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature…
As part of their series on internationally acclaimed writer Haruki Murakami, the Asahi Shimbun has published an interview with Jay Rubin, one of Murakami’s translators…
Takami Nieda and Nao-Cola Yamazaki—one of four translator-writer pairs awarded this year’s prestigious 10-day Translation Lab residency at Writers Omi—will appear at Baruch College. On November 14th, the last...
The 19th Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature will be presented to Roger Pulvers. He will be honored during a ceremony and reception on September 16, 2013, at the Japan Society in New York....
The journal Asymptote has announced their first-ever translation contest. “Close Approximations,” their new international contest, will be judged by two translators, Eliot Weinberger (poetry)...
My peripatetic neighbor Jen brought a clipping from the Yomiuri Shimbun about a newly disclosed collection of Osamu Dazai’s school-age notebooks and a diary. It’s a fascinating look into the mind...
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel (Knopf), has been shortlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award…