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Yoko Tawada

1960 - Today

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Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German. She is a former writer-in-residence at MIT and Stanford University. Tawada has won numerous literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Goethe Medal, the Kleist Prize, and a National Book Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yoko Tawada is the 4,308th most popular writer (up from 4,685th in 2019), the 1,197th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,219th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yoko Tawada ranks 4,308 out of 7,302. Before her are Andrej Sládkovič, Elisabetta Dami, Andrei Bitov, E. B. White, Julia Quinn, and Manuel Curros Enríquez. After her are Peyo Yavorov, David Almond, Vasyl Stefanyk, Olav Duun, Camille Paglia, and Colm Tóibín.

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Among people born in 1960, Yoko Tawada ranks 225. Before her are Jenette Goldstein, Chris Waddle, Aymen Benabderrahmane, Vladimir Krutov, Susanne Lothar, and Jason Beghe. After her are Bogaletch Gebre, Djamel Menad, RuPaul, Alfred Gusenbauer, Annabella Sciorra, and Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoko Tawada ranks 1,197 out of 6,245. Before her are Iccho Itoh (1945), Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), Kunio Maekawa (1905), Kishin Shinoyama (1940), Takuma Sato (1977), and Yukitaka Omi (1952). After her are Yūjirō Ishihara (1934), Takehito Koyasu (1967), Eiji Okada (1920), Keiko Saito (1965), Isao Kimura (1923), and Masahiro Ota (1970).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yoko Tawada ranks 90. Before her are Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931), Shinichi Hoshi (1926), Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Masuji Ibuse (1898), and Hiratsuka Raichō (1886). After her are Koji Suzuki (1957), Itō Noe (1895), Yōko Ogawa (1962), Saneatsu Mushanokōji (1885), Yoshiki Tanaka (1952), and Sakyo Komatsu (1931).

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