Yoko Tawada
1960 – present · b. Tokyo
Japan
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Biography
Yōko Tawada is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German. She is a former writer-in-residence at MIT and Stanford University.
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Awards
- Nelly Sachs Prize (2025)No list
- Japan Art Academy Prize (2024)No list
- Mainichi Publication Culture Award (2023)No list
- Q125732451 (2023)No list
- Medal with Purple Ribbon (2020)No list
- Asahi Prize (2020)No list
- Carl Zuckmayer Medal (2018)No list
- National Book Award for Translated Literature (2018)
Education
- University of Zurich
- University of Hamburg
- Waseda University
