Yoko Tawada
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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.
Yōko Tawada in 2025
Susan Bernofsky
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Susan Bernofsky is an American translator of German-language literature and author.
Yoko Tawada
…Vietnamese girl who was kidnapped at a young age while in Germany for a youth conference. An English version, translated from the German manuscript by Susan Bernofsky, was published by New Directions Publishing in 2009 under the title The Naked Eye. In 2005, Tawada won the prestigious Goethe Medal from the Goethe-Institut…
Susan Bernofsky speaking at swissnex San Francisco on April 3, 2013