Every Work Has Several Faces: A Conversation with Yoko Tawada about Writing and Translation

Every Work Has Several Faces: A Conversation with Yoko Tawada about Writing and Translation, Co-Moderated by Writing Professor Rivka Galchen ‘06 and Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) Director, Susan Bernofsky.

International literary luminary Yoko Tawada, born in Tokyo, lives in Berlin and publishes novels, stories, essays, poems, and plays in both Japanese and German as well as translating between these languages. She has received dozens of literary awards including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Goethe Medal, the Kleist Prize, and the National Book Award. Some of her major works available in English include The Emissary and Scattered All Over the Earth, translated from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, and Memoirs of a Polar Bear and Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky.