Apr 25, 2021
British translator Ginny Tapley Takemori has become a recognizable name in translated fiction in recent years. Her work on Sayaka Murata’s “Convenience Store Woman” (2018) and “Earthlings” (2020), as well as Kyoko Nakajima’s “The Little House” (2019), garnered praise, but in an alternate universe she could still be translating works from Spanish or Catalan in sunny Barcelona.
After graduating high school in the 1980s, Takemori took a gap year (that extended into several), enjoying her work in London’s music scene. An eye-opening vacation to Spain, however, convinced Takemori to take a leap and move from her base in England.
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Recent titles of interest:
LADY JOKER, VOL. 1, by Kaoru Takamura. Translated by Allison Markin Powell and Marie Iida. (Soho Crime, $28.95.) Hinging on a kidnapping plot, Takamura’s prismatic heist novel (published in Japan in 1997) offers a broad indictment of capitalist society.
THE GOD EQUATION: The Quest for a Theory of Everything, by Michio Kaku. (Doubleday, $22.) Kaku, a physicist at the City University of New York and a leading proponent of string field theory, traces the effort to merge relativity and quantum theory, uniting the laws that govern the very large and the very small.