Yoko Tawada—“strange, exquisite” (The New Yorker )—was born in Tokyo in 1960 and moved to Germany when she was twenty-two. She writes in both Japanese and German and has received the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Goethe Medal, and the Tanizaki Prize.
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Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as 'Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness'-Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performer... SEE MORE