Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, Asian Studies Program, and Japanese Present
Translating Contemporary Japanese Writers
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Online Event
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
A Conversation Between Morgan Giles and David Boyd
Morgan Giles is a translator and critic. She has translated fiction by authors including Yu Miri, Hideo Furukawa, and Hitomi Kanehara. Her translation of Yu Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station won the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2019 Translators Association First Translation Prize.David Boyd is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has translated novels and stories by Hiroko Oyamada, Masatsugu Ono, and Toh EnJoe, among others. His translation of Hideo Furukawa’s Slow Boat (Pushkin Press, 2017) won the 2017/2018 Japan-US Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. With Sam Bett, he is cotranslating the novels of Mieko Kawakami.
Zoom Link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89128393344
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/89128393344.
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Online Event