Yōko Tawada

Yoko Tawada is a Berlin-based award-winning Japanese author who writes in both German and Japanese. She has won numerous awards, including Tanizaki Prize, Akutagawa Prize, Izumi Kyoka Prize, Kleist Prize, and National Book Award, among other awards. Tawada graduated from Waseda University with a degree in education in 1982 and a master’s degree in German literature from Hamburg University, and later a doctorate from the University of Zurich.