Writing across Languages and Cultures: An Afternoon with writer Yoko Tawada

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 09 September 2011

Time:

3:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Room:

Terrace Room, Level 5

UQ Location:

Sir Llew Edwards Building (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.slccs.uq.edu.au/events

Event category(s):

Full Description:: As part of Brisbane Writers Festival, The School of Languages and
Comparative Cultural Studies (SLCCS) is proud to announce the visit of
internationally acclaimed writer Yoko Towada.

Yoko Tawada is a Japanese writer living in Germany. She received her undergraduate education at Waseda University with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master’s degree in contemporary German literature at Hamburg University, and a PhD at the University of Zurich.

She has published A Void Only Where You Are, a collection of poems in a German and Japanese bilingual edition.Tawada’s Missing Heels received the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, and The Bridegroom Was a Dog received the Akutgawa Prize. Suspect on the Night Train won the Tanizaki Prize and Ito Sei Literary Prize.

Tawada has also received the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, a German award to foreign writers in recognition of their contribution to German culture, and the Goethe Medal. Most recently, she was awarded the Murasaki Shikibu Prize.

Please visit www.slccs.uq.edu.au/events for further information and to register to attend.