#miekokawakami — Public Fediverse posts

Everyone knows that cats and Japanese literature go well together 😼

#CatsOfMastodon #FediCats #BlackCats #JapaneseLiterature #MiekoKawakami

Really good interview with Mieko Kawakami and the two translators (Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio) of "Sisters in Yellow".

I loved this re. translating:
"There’s a chapter narrated primarily from Yeongsu’s point of view, and he mentions that the other kids called him a piece of goldfish shit (kingyo no fun). I was quite taken with this description, but in the editing process, Hitomi pointed out it was idiomatic—a piece of goldfish shit is a hanger-on. This, however, is one of those points where I think translation creates a richness—what is idiomatic for one language becomes an evocative phrase in another (Anyone who’s ever owned goldfish immediately has a vivid image of what a goldfish mid-bowel-movement looks like.), and Hitomi agreed."

Literary Hub » Mieko Kawakami on Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Hope in the Darkness

#MiekoKawakami #SistersInYellow

https://lithub.com/mieko-kawakami-on-sisterhood-survival-and-finding-hope-in-the-darkness/

At the local bookshop to pick up Sisters in Yellow, and having a coffee. Love this place (Backstory in Balham).

#SistersInYellow #MiekoKawakami #Backstory #IndependentBookstores

In “Sisters in Yellow,” Mieko Kawakami brings to life a group of exuberant young hustlers in the underbelly of 1990s Tokyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/03/17/books/mieko-kawakami-sisters-in-yellow/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #miekokawakami #japaneseliterature #translation

Bestselling Women Writers in Japan Defy Cliché

Many of the most popular Japanese titles in translation belong to the healing fiction genre: cozy, comforting stories that often feature some combination of cats, cafés, and books, such as Toshikazu K…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #AkiraOtani #AsakoYuzuki #BreastsandEggs #butter #feministfiction #Japanesefiction #MiekoKawakami #NatsuoKirino #news #swallows #TheNightofBabaYaga
https://www.alojapan.com/1455673/bestselling-women-writers-in-japan-defy-cliche/

Bestselling Women Writers in Japan Defy Cliché

Many of the most popular Japanese titles in translation belong to the healing fiction genre: cozy, comforting stories that often feature some combination of cats, cafés, and books, such as Toshikazu K…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #AkiraOtani #AsakoYuzuki #BreastsandEggs #butter #feministfiction #Japanesefiction #MiekoKawakami #NatsuoKirino #news #swallows #TheNightofBabaYaga
https://www.alojapan.com/1455673/bestselling-women-writers-in-japan-defy-cliche/

https://www.alojapan.com/1455673/bestselling-women-writers-in-japan-defy-cliche/ Bestselling Women Writers in Japan Defy Cliché #AkiraOtani #AsakoYuzuki #BreastsAndEggs #butter #FeministFiction #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseFiction #MiekoKawakami #NatsuoKirino #news #swallows #TheNightOfBabaYaga Many of the most popular Japanese titles in translation belong to the healing fiction genre: cozy, comforting stories that often feature some combination of cats, cafés, and books, such as Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets

https://www.alojapan.com/1455673/bestselling-women-writers-in-japan-defy-cliche/ Bestselling Women Writers in Japan Defy Cliché #AkiraOtani #AsakoYuzuki #BreastsAndEggs #butter #FeministFiction #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseFiction #MiekoKawakami #NatsuoKirino #news #swallows #TheNightOfBabaYaga Many of the most popular Japanese titles in translation belong to the healing fiction genre: cozy, comforting stories that often feature some combination of cats, cafés, and books, such as Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets

One house, one woman and just a single actor on stage embodying a story of multitudes in the latest adaptation of Kawakami’s work. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/02/14/stage/mieko-kawakami-wisteria-theater-play/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #stage #miekokawakami #takahirofujita #izumiaoyagi #theater

.#AndyBlood on #MarkTwain. #AndreaStillacci on #Dostoyevski And me on the state of the industry.
It’s The Year in (The Agency) Review-2025. 6 brilliant people answering 3 simple questions.

https://the-agency-review.com/2025-the-year-in-the-agency-review/

#JohnCarreyrou #DrJoeDispenza #RobertMcKee #MaggieJackson #PhilJoanou #NicolasBallet #BenColley #HowardSchultz #RajaRajamannar #PercivalEverett #HarukiMurakami #MiekoKawakami #JezButterworth #MarkRylance #JoelGion #MarcusChown #NickBostrom #CalebScharf #KarenHao #WernerHerzog

.#AndyBlood on #MarkTwain. #AndreaStillacci on #Dostoyevski And me on the state of the industry.
It’s The Year in (The Agency) Review-2025. 6 brilliant people answering 3 simple questions.

https://the-agency-review.com/2025-the-year-in-the-agency-review/

#JohnCarreyrou #DrJoeDispenza #RobertMcKee #MaggieJackson #PhilJoanou #NicolasBallet #BenColley #HowardSchultz #RajaRajamannar #PercivalEverett #HarukiMurakami #MiekoKawakami #JezButterworth #MarkRylance #JoelGion #MarcusChown #NickBostrom #CalebScharf #KarenHao #WernerHerzog

Heute erscheint Mieko Kawakamis neuster Roman "Das Gelbe Haus" in Deutschland. Leser dürfen sich auf eine emotionale Reise zu einer Schattenseite Japans der 1990er freuen. #Japan #MiekoKawakami

https://sumikai.com/japan-erleben/buecher/das-gelbe-haus-von-mieko-kawakami-gibt-lesern-einblick-in-eine-andere-seite-japans-361195/

Ab 12. August können deutsche Leser sich auf einen neuen Roman der gefeierten Autorin Mieko Kawakami freuen, denn "Das gelbe Haus" erscheint beim DuMont Verlag. #Japan #MiekoKawakami

https://sumikai.com/japan-erleben/buecher/das-gelbe-haus-von-mieko-kawakami-erscheint-im-august-in-deutschland-358459/

From the deadly serious and deeply weird to the fluffiest of diversions, Japanese literature in the 2020s is a booming and eclectic realm. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/12/15/books/japanese-literature-translation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #books #literature #translation #miekokawakami #sayakamurata #yumiri #asakoyuzuki #yokoogawa #yokotawada #hiromikawakami #harukimurakami

From the deadly serious and deeply weird to the fluffiest of diversions, Japanese literature in the 2020s is a booming and eclectic realm. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/12/15/books/japanese-literature-translation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #books #literature #translation #miekokawakami #sayakamurata #yumiri #asakoyuzuki #yokoogawa #yokotawada #hiromikawakami #harukimurakami

From the deadly serious and deeply weird to the fluffiest of diversions, Japanese literature in the 2020s is a booming and eclectic realm. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/12/15/books/japanese-literature-translation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #books #literature #translation #miekokawakami #sayakamurata #yumiri #asakoyuzuki #yokoogawa #yokotawada #hiromikawakami #harukimurakami

From the deadly serious and deeply weird to the fluffiest of diversions, Japanese literature in the 2020s is a booming and eclectic realm. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/12/15/books/japanese-literature-translation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #books #literature #translation #miekokawakami #sayakamurata #yumiri #asakoyuzuki #yokoogawa #yokotawada #hiromikawakami #harukimurakami

Translated novels sold a total of some 2 million copies in Britain in 2023, and Japanese works accounted for one-quarter of those sold. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/01/25/books/japanese-literature-boom-britain/?utm_content=buffer92b54&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #culture #books #tiktok #bananayoshimoto #miekokawakami #sayakamurata #pushkinpress

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/magazine/mieko-kawakami.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #MiekoKawakami

The English release of “Sisters in Yellow” is scheduled for 2025.

I take this as a challenge to further improve my Japanese to the point where I am able to read a "proper" novel in Japanese. Before 2025. 😬

#MiekoKawakami #川上未映子

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/03/31/books/mieko-kawakami-sisters-in-yellow-response/#Echobox=1680238255

川上未映子さんの「すべて真夜中の恋人たち」読了。最初は何の話？と思ってたら後半どんどん面白くなって止められなくなった。でも最後が微妙かなあ。いやでも面白かった。
Finished Mieko Kawakami’s “All the lovers in the night” it’s available in English. It starts off slow, but last half I couldn’t put it down. It gets intensely romantic but I’m not sure about how it ended. Still enjoyed it though.

#books
#読書
#川上未映子
#すべて真夜中の恋人たち
#Japanese
#miekokawakami
#reading

Mastodon lists seem to be in 7s, so my top 7 books of 2022 are:

#PatrickMcCabe - Poguemahone
#OlgaTokarczuk - The Books of Jacob (translation)
#JohnElizabethStintzi - My Volcano
#JohnDarnielle - Devil House
#RodrigoFresán - The Remembered Part (translation)
#MiekoKawakami - All the Lovers in the Night (translation)
#ReneeGladman - Plans for Sentences

#bookstodon @bookstodon

@EJBrand #DonnaTart
#NeilGaiman
#MagdaSzabó
#MiekoKawakami
#RayCelestin

@EJBrand #DonnaTart
#NeilGaiman
#MagdaSzabó
#MiekoKawakami
#RayCelestin

@EJBrand #DonnaTart
#NeilGaiman
#MagdaSzabó
#MiekoKawakami
#RayCelestin

@EJBrand #DonnaTart
#NeilGaiman
#MagdaSzabó
#MiekoKawakami
#RayCelestin