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Yoko Tawada

Portrait of author Yoko Tawada
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Yoko Tawada

Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, and has been living in Germany since the early 1980s. She is well known as an exophonic writer—one who writes outside of her native language. She has received multiple literary prizes for her writing both in Japanese and in German, including the National Book Award for The Emissary in 2018.

Articles by Yoko Tawada

Mihama Nuclear Power Plant
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