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Ginny Tapley Takemori


Born
The United Kingdom

Ginny Tapley Takemori lives in rural Japan and has translated fiction by more than a dozen early modern and contemporary Japanese writers, ranging from such early literary giants as Izumi Kyoka and Okamoto Kido, to contemporary bestsellers Ryu Murakami and Miyabe Miyuki. Her translations have also appeared in Granta, Freeman’s, Words Without Borders, and a number of anthologies. Her translation of Tomiko Inui’s The Secret of the Blue Glass was shortlisted for the Marsh Award, and her translation of Sayaka Murata’s Akutagawa prize-winning novel Convenience Store Woman was one of the New Yorker’s best books of 2018 and Foyle’s Book of the Year 2018. Her translation of Kyoko Nakajima’s Naoki prize-winning The Little House was published in Febr ...more

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Convenience Store Woman

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3.67 avg rating — 388,980 ratings — published 2016 — 133 editions
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Earthlings

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3.60 avg rating — 105,137 ratings — published 2018
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Life Ceremony

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3.73 avg rating — 28,829 ratings — published 2019 — 42 editions
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She and Her Cat: Stories

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3.87 avg rating — 22,119 ratings — published 2013 — 51 editions
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Vanishing World

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3.23 avg rating — 12,337 ratings — published 2015 — 26 editions
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Grave of the Fireflies

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4.08 avg rating — 3,462 ratings — published 1967 — 43 editions
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Mornings Without Mii

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3.68 avg rating — 2,361 ratings — published 1999 — 22 editions
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Things Remembered and Thing...

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3.78 avg rating — 1,786 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions
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Asa: The Girl Who Turned in...

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3.41 avg rating — 1,754 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions
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The Book of Tokyo: A City i...

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3.52 avg rating — 1,314 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions
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