New Writing From Japan: Meet MONKEY founder, Motoyuki Shibata
Kelly Link will be part of Monkey Business’s events on Sunday with Motoyuki Shibata (star translator who translated Magic for Beginners into Japanese!). I’ll be taking Ursula down. Maybe see you there!
PEN World Voices - Japan/America: Writers’ Dialogue
Sunday, May 6, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York
Dialogue: Masatsugu Ono + Stuart Dybek / Tomoka Shibasaki + Kelly Link (Interpreter: Hitomi Yoshio)
Japan Night @ Joe’s Pub
Sunday, May 6, 7:30pm-8:30pm
425 Lafayette Street, New York
Readings by Masatsugu Ono, Tomoka Shibasaki, Stuart Dybek, Kelly Link and Barry Yourgrau introduced by Yoko Sawai + Music by Neo Blues Maki
Readings
Wednesday, May 9, 7:00pm
BookCourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
Readings by Tomoka Shibasaki, Masatsugu Ono, Roland Kelts, Ted Goossen and Barry Yourgrau / Host: Motoyuki Shibata
The ASIA SOCIETY interview is here.
Widely referred to as Japan’s leading translator of contemporary American literature, Motoyuki Shibata has been responsible for rendering American writers as diverse as Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Richard Powers and Edward Gorey into Japanese. As a…
