Date/Time
Date(s) - 2/21/2013
7:00 pm
Location
McNally Jackson
Join us on Thursday February 21st for a reading and discussion with two acclaimed Japanese translators, Stephen Snyder and Allison Markin Powell.
Stephen Snyder is Kawashima Professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafu and co-editor of Oe and Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan. He has translated works by Yoko Ogawa, Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Kunio Tsuji’s Azuchi Okanki (The Signore) won the 1990 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission translation prize. His translation of Natsuo Kirino’s Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004 and his translation of Yoko Ogawa’s Hotel Iris was short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011. His most recent translation of Ogawa’s Revenge, published by Picador.
Allison Markin Powell is a literary translator and editor. She has translated works by Osamu Dazai, Hiromi Kawakami, and Motoyuki Shibata, among others, and was the guest editor for Words Without Borders’ first Japan issue. She has worked in the publishing industry for over a dozen years. Her translation of Hiromi Kawakami’s The Suitcase has been shortlisted for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize.