Japan Now 2018 (or Slow Boat to Chinatown)
What follows is my original report on Japan Now 2018, written for the Japanese web magazine Kami no Tane and published there in translation. Japan Now, a British festival celebrating […]
Japan on Japan: What the World Should Be Reading
I don’t want this blog to become solely lists, but I came across two in a book that I can’t help reproducing (and expanding upon) here, because I think they’re interesting […]
Mentor Yourself in Literary Translation!
I get a decent number of emails asking how to become a literary translator. I wish I could tell you the translation equivalent of the Konami code, but tragically nobody […]
Read Her Now: Five Women to Translate in 2015
Nearly two years have passed now since my shortlist of ten female Japanese writers who need to be translated, and I’ve been surprised and delighted by the amount of attention it’s […]
151st Akutagawa & Naoki Prize Nominees
The nominees for the 151st Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes have been announced. The prizes will be awarded on July 17th. The Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes are usually awarded in January […]
Postcard Poems
For £2.50, I’ll send you (or your crush, or your enemy, etc) a nice postcard with a Japanese poem in the original and in English translation. I have good handwriting, as well […]
Diary: Cool, sometimes mean.
I am translating This World Isn’t Made Two by Two by Nao-cola Yamazaki. This is my weekly translation diary. Often being a translator means reading really closely, paying attention to the structure […]
