To break with the familiarity and routine of the culture and the institution of the society in which you grew up. It is useful, I believe, to fundamentally lose one sense of direction at least once. As she explained in 2008 interview, this loss of familiarity is key for her: Born in Japan but resident for many years in Germany, she writes her novels in either German or Japanese, switching between languages for different books, particularly if she feels she is getting too comfortable writing in one. '3 Streets' is Margaret Mitsutani's translation of three Yōko Tawada stories selected from a longer-collection from 2017, whose title would translate as 'A Century of Walks'. '3 Streets' is the 5th, for me, of the first 6 of the new New Directions Storybook collection, kindly sent to be by my Goodreads friend and fellow reader Wendy - see below for the details of the collection. I've heard that if someone happens to read a dead poet's work as criticism of the current regime, his ghost is often arrested. There was once a square named after him in Russia, but even spirits are avoiding Russia now. But Mayakowsky would undoubtedly come straight here. There are so many roads named after Goethe that his ghost gets awfully confused and rarely manages to haunt any of them. Marx's spirit haunts Karl-Marx Strasse and Kant's appears in Kantstrasse. Ghosts don't come back to this world unless there's a special place for them here. Tawada received the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 1996, a German award to foreign writers in recognition of their contribution to German culture, and the Goethe Medal in 2005. Her Suspect on the Night Train won the Tanizaki Prize and Ito Sei Literary Prize in 2003.
In 1999 she became writer-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for four months. Tawada's Missing Heels received the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 1991, and The Bridegroom Was a Dog received the Akutagawa Prize in 1993. In 1987 she published Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts-Anata no iru tokoro dake nani mo nai (A Void Only Where You Are), a collection of poems in a German and Japanese bilingual edition. She received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich. Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German literature.
Yōko Tawada ( 多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany.
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