Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)

Ginny Tapley Takemori Ginny Tapley Takemori lives in rural Japan and has translated fiction by more than a dozen early modern and contemporary Japanese writers, from bestsellers Ryu Murakami and Kyotaro Nishimura to literary greats Izumi Kyoka and Okamoto Kido. Her most recent book publications include Miyuki Miyabe’s five-volume Puppet Master and Tomiko Inui’s The Secret of the Blue Glass, shortlisted for the Marsh Award, and her short fiction translations have appeared in Granta, Freeman’s, Words Without Borders, and a number of anthologies. Her translation of Sayaka Murata’s Akutagawa Prize-winning novel Convenience Store Woman was named by New Yorker magazine as one of the best books of 2018. Her translation of Kyoko Nakajima’s The Little House is forthcoming in 2019. 

NEW RELEASE! The Akutagawa Prize-winning novel from Sayaka Murata, Vogue Japan’s 2016 Woman of the Year.

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If you love Ryu Murakami, you won’t be disappointed with this novel, a fictional account of North Korea invading Japan.

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A translation of Mohohan, Miyuki Miyabe’s absolute masterpiece.

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NEW RELEASE! Moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex.

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A collection of short stories that are fascinating psychological explorations of the criminal mind and what drives people to crime.

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The Secret of the Blue Glass by Tomiko Inui was shortlisted for the Marsh Award.

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