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Yoko Tawada wins Yomiuri-Literary-Prize 2013
THE NEW YORKER / October 19, 2012
“Yoko Tawada’s Magnificent Strangeness”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/10/yoko-tawadas-magnificent-strangeness.html
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2013
1.March Symposium “Writing and Reading in a Globalized World” Florida State University, USA
2.March Symposium “Catastrophe and Catharsis” Interdisciplinary Perspective. University of Cincinnati, USA
4.March – 6.March Readings at University of Wisconsin, USA
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The Future of Futurity: Alexander Kluge and Yoko Tawada (The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Volume 86, Issue 3, 2011) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00168890.2011.585082
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Chinese: http://global.yup.cn/culture/1724.jhtml
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The Worlds 2012 literature conference in Norwich, UK: Tuesday 19th June, 2-3.30pm, UEA Drama Studio, Free Afternoon Reading: Language & Experiment A free afternoon reading on the theme of Language and Experiment. Featuring Joe Dunthorne (UK), Alvin Pang (Singapore), Manon Uphoff (Netherlands), Yoko Tawada (Japan) and Valerie Henitiuk from the British Centre for Literary Translation as host.
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Editor David Karashima and writer Yoko Tawada discuss a new anthology of stories responding to the …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00p98my/The_Weekend_Strand_10_03_2012/
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Yoko Tawada wins Noma-Literary-Prize: http://junbungaku.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/tawada-yoko-wins-noma-literary-prize/
October 20 – 23, 2011
Women in German Conference, Guest Speaker
Yarrow Golf and Conference Center, Augusta, Michigan
http://www.womeningerman.org/conference/conference.html
Coordinator: Helga Thorson (helgathorson@uvic.ca)
October 23 – 25, 2011
Michigan State University, Campus Visit
Coordinator: Liz Mittman (mittman@msu.edu)
October 25 – 28, 2011
University of Notre Dame, Campus Visit
Provost’s Distinguished Women’s Lecturer Series
Coordinator: Denise Della Rossa (dellarossa.1@nd.edu)
October 28 – November 2, 2011
University of Victoria, Campus Visit
Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture Series
Coordinator: Helga Thorson (helgathorson@uvic.ca)
April 2011
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/german/untranslatables/speakers
YOKO TAWADA
Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, educated at Waseda University and has lived in Germany since 1982, where she received her Ph.D. in German literature. She received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for The Bridegroom Was a Dog. She writes in both German and Japanese, and in 1996, she won the Adalbert-von-Chamisso Prize, a German award recognizing foreign writers for their contributions to German culture. She also received the Goethe-Medal, an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. E-Mail-Address: tawadaoo@yahoo.co.jp
READINGS in USA 2010
March 28. Washington University, St.Louis
(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~gersymp/sym2010/main2010.html)
March 29. University of Minnesota
March 31. Penn State University, State College
April 5. Brown University, Providence
Available in English
1. The Bridegroom Was a Dog: novels. published by Kodansha International, in New York 1998
2. Where Europe Begins. New Directions, New York 2002
3. Facing the Bridge: novels. New Directions, New York. 2007 http://www.ndpublishing.com/books/tawadafacingthebridge.html
4. The Naked Eye. New Directions, New York 2009 http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/04/books/the-new-global-novel-of-disorientation
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The Naked Eye. New Directions, New York 2009
“Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”—Michael Porter, The New York Times
A precocious Vietnamese high school student — known as the pupil with “the iron blouse”—in Ho Chi Minh City is invited to an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. But, in East Berlin, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on “Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism,” she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany. After a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her lover-abductor—and though “the Berlin Wall was said to be more difficult to break through than the Great Wall of China” — she escapes on a train to Moscow . . . but mistakenly arrives in Paris. Alone, broke, and in a completely foreign land, Anh (her false name) loses herself in the films of Catherine Deneuve as her real adventures begin. (…) Dreamy, meditative, and filled with the gritty everyday perils of a person living somewhere without papers (at one point Anh is subjected to some vampire-like skin experiments), The Naked Eye is a novel that is as surprising as it is delightful—each of the thirteen chapters titled after and framed by one of Deneuve’s films. “As far as I was concerned,” the narrator says while watching Deneuve on the screen, “the only woman in the world was you, and so I did not exist.” By the time 1989 comes along and the Iron Curtain falls, story and viewer have morphed into the dislocating beauty of both dancer and dance.
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Writer-in-Residence in USA
1. Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades Oct.-Nov 1996
2. M.I.T. Boston Feb.-May 1999
3. University of Kentucky April 2004
4. Deutsches Haus of New York University Nov.-Dec. 2004
5. Washington University in St.Louis March-April 2008
6. Stanford University Feb.2009
7. Cornell University April 2009
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