Margaret Mitsutani

Finalist, 2022 National Book Awards
Winner, 2018 National Book Awards

Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Japan’s 1994 Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe.
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Scattered All Over the Earth

book cover Yoko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth
ISBN 9780811229289 New Directions Publishing

In Scattered All Over the Earth, the mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, the world’s climate disaster and its attendant refugee crises is viewed through the loving twin lenses of friendship and linguistic ingenuity. More about this book >

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The Emissary

ISBN 9780811227629 New Directions Publishing

Translated by Margaret Mitsutani Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. More about this book >

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Margaret Mitsutani reads for Yoko Tawada & Monique Truong for Mitsutani at the 2022 Finalist Reading


Margaret Mitsutani and Monique Truong (for Yoko Towada) read at the NBAs Finalists Reading


Monique Truong (on behalf of Yoko Tawada) and Margaret Mitsutani accept the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature

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Margaret Mitsutani

Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Japan’s 1994 Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe.

(Photo credit: Yasushi Mitsutani)

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