Writing in the Web of Words: An Evening with Yoko Tawada

Internationally acclaimed Japanese-German author Yoko Tawada will give a reading in English, German, and Japanese and discuss some of her works, including her 1993 Akutagawa Prize–winning novel The Bridegroom Was a Dog (Inumukoiri) and Where Europe Begins, her first volume of short stories translated from German and Japanese into English.

Presented in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, New York, and Columbia University’s Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures.