Ginny Tapley Takemori

A Familiar Environment | Translator Ginny Tapley Takemori

By Codi Hauka | June 8, 2021

Murata Sayaka’s short novel, Convenience Store Woman, a thematically-propelled distillation of the author’s experience working in konbini, has achieved extraordinary success in English. Kyoto Journal speaks with the novel’s Ibaraki-based translator, Ginny Tapley Takemori.

A Familiar Environment

By lucinda | August 5, 2019

“Women authors in Japan are more or less par for winning the big prizes, and they’re publishing easily as much as men, but they’re not appearing in translation. There’s a movement to try and do something about it.”

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