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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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
NEWS
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38654624/Sonderzeichen-Yoko-Tawada-Ein-Briefwechsel-zwischen-Susan-Bernofsky-und-Bernard-Banoun