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Jan 16, 2021 Not only is Jeffrey Angles an award-winning translator of contemporary Japanese works, he’s also an award-winning Japanese poet. In 2017, the American writer received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature for his collection of poems written in Japanese, “Watashi no hizukehenkosen” (“My International Date Line”), making him one of a handful of non-Japanese writers to win the prize. Angles, 49, first came to Japan for a four-month stint as a 15-year-old exchange student, and improved his language skills by taking courses at Ohio State University while still in high sc...

The Best Translated Books You Missed in 2020 As we approach the end of 2020, we’ve been speaking with translators, critics, publishers, writers, and booksellers about outstanding books in translation that readers might have missed this year. Read on for recommendations from Daniel Hahn, Maya Jaggi, Meng Jin, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Boyd Tonkin, and more.   Ulysses and  Mrs. Dalloway, this book, first published in Hindi in 1963, traces the experiences of a flaneur wandering through a city over the course of a single day, recording his experiences, memories, reflections, and emoti...