多和田葉子
Born 1960 · Japan
National Book Award 2022 · Finalist
地球にちりばめられて · Chikyū ni chiribamerarete
Yoko Tawada · 58 when first published
Novel · 309 pages · Speculative, Migration
Translated by Margaret Mitsutani
AI-generated summary:A young woman whose island homeland disappeared while she was studying in Europe gets by in a language of her own making, and sets out with a linguistics student to find anyone who still speaks her mother tongue.
National Book Award 2018 · Winner
献灯使 · Kentōshi
Yoko Tawada · 54 when first published
Novel · 138 pages · Speculative
Translated by Margaret Mitsutani
AI-generated summary:In a Japan that has sealed itself off from the world after a great disaster, a man over a hundred years old, unable to die, looks after his frail great-grandson, a boy too weak to walk far.
Warwick Prize 2017 · Winner
Etüden im Schnee
Yoko Tawada · 54 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Migration
Translated by Susan Bernofsky
AI-generated summary:Three generations of polar bears, a grandmother, her daughter and her grandson, tell their stories, which lead from Moscow and travelling circus life through East Germany to Berlin after reunification.