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A Writer in Constant Motion
On the day the Nobel Prize in Literature was announced in early October 2019, Tawada Yōko was on a visit to Brazil. Born in Tokyo, Tawada has lived in Germany for decades and is now based in Berlin. Her novels, written in both Japanese and German, have been translated into more than 30 languages. On this occasion, she was in Brazil for an event to mark the publication of the Portuguese translation of
Yuki no renshūsei (trans.
Memoirs of a Polar Bear/
Memórias de um Urso-Polar) a novel about three generations of polar bears that won the Noma Literary Prize when it came out in Japanese in 2011.