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MONKEY New Writing from Japan Volume 4: MUSIC Edited by: Ted Goossen

MONKEY New Writing from Japan Volume 4: MUSIC Edited by: Ted Goossen

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For fans of Japanese literature (Haruki Murakami and more) and readers who want to be introduced to exciting new writers.

MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume 4 celebrates MUSIC, as we welcome the post-pandemic flourishing of artistic expression. MONKEY offers short fiction and poetry by writers such as Hideo Furukawa, Mieko Kawakami, Haruki Murakami, Hiromi Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and Hiroko Oyamada; graphic stories by Satoshi Kitamura; new translations of modern classics; and contributions from American authors Stuart Dybek, Kevin Brockmeier, and more.

Ted Goossen is a literary translator, professor emeritus at York University in Toronto, and one of the founding editors of Monkey Business and MONKEY New Writing from Japan . He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories . He translated Haruki Murakami's Wind/Pinball and The Strange Library, and co-translated (with Philip Gabriel) Men Without Women and K illing Commendatore . His translations of Hiromi Kawakami's People from My Neighborhood and Naoya Shiga's Reconciliation were published in 2020. His translation of the story collection Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami was published under the MONKEY imprint with Stone Bridge Press in 2023.
Motoyuki Shibatatranslates American literature and runs the Japanese literary journal MONKEY . He has translated Paul Auster, Rebecca Brown, Stuart Dybek, Steve Erickson, Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, and Richard Powers, among others. His translation of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a bestseller in Japan in 2018. His recent translations include Eric McCormack's Cloud and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels . He is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.

9781737625384
Paperback , Trade
English
Nov 24, 2023
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