Yoko Tawada

Yōko Tawada is a Japanese novelist, playwright, essayist, and writer born in Tokyo in 1960. She began her work period in 1987 and writes in Japanese and German. Her field of work includes essay, prose, poetry, and drama. She has received the Akutagawa Prize, Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, and Tanizaki Prize.

Tawada is a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature, the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, and the Academy of Arts, Berlin. She was educated at Waseda University, the University of Hamburg, and the University of Zurich, and was a student of Sigrid Weigel. She works in Berlin and speaks German and Japanese. Her name in kana is たわだ ようこ and in her native language is 多和田葉子.

Notable works include *Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright*, *Poem for a Book*, *Wild Lines and Poetic Travels*, *Suggested in the Stars*, and *Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel*.