John Bester

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John Bester


Born
January 01, 1927

Died
January 01, 2010


John Bester (1927–2010) was a renowned translator of Japanese fiction, including Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain, Kenzaburo Oe’s The Silent Cry, and Yukio Mishima’s Acts of Worship: Seven Stories, for which he received the Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature.

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Sun & Steel

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3.83 avg rating — 8,894 ratings — published 1968
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Black Rain

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3.99 avg rating — 4,581 ratings — published 1965 — 15 editions
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The Silent Cry

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3.84 avg rating — 4,662 ratings — published 1967 — 75 editions
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Night Train to the Stars

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3.77 avg rating — 4,554 ratings — published 1934 — 2 editions
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The Waiting Years

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3.96 avg rating — 3,363 ratings — published 1957 — 42 editions
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Confessions of a Yakuza: A ...

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The Quickest Copywriting Cr...

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Japanese Art: The Great Eur...

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Know Your Japanese: A Trans...

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Drift

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