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Contact: Ralph
Derickson
Tawada
Yoko
Among
Tawada’s books is “Where Europe Begins,” a
startling collection of stories that move through
landscapes of fairy tales, family history, dreams,
and everyday reality. Often set in physically disparate
locations like Japan, Siberia and Germany, Tawada
uses the fragmented world to explore humanity’s
experience of estrangement in an ever-changing
society.
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LEXINGTON,
Ky. (March 1, 2004) -- Tawada
Yoko, a writer who has produced more than 20
volumes of literature in both Japanese and German,
will be a writer-in-residence at the University
of Kentucky during March.
Her
UK visit is being sponsored by the UK
Max Kade House Cultural Center, the UK
Japan Studies Program, and UK
Asia Center.
Among
Tawada’s books is “Where Europe Begins,” a
startling collection of stories that move through
landscapes of fairy tales, family history, dreams,
and everyday reality. Often set in physically disparate
locations like Japan, Siberia and Germany, Tawada
uses the fragmented world to explore humanity’s
experience of estrangement in an ever-changing
society.
Doug
Slaymaker, director of the UK Japan Studies Program
and associate professor of Russian and Eastern
Studies, said Tawada’s schedule at UK permits
students, faculty and staff a “wonderful
opportunity to hear and visit with one of the most
important writers of her generation.”
Tawada,
who has won numerous literary awards including
Japan’s highest, the Akutagawa Prize, and
Germany’s Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, will
participate in two book signings at Joseph-Beth
Booksellers. The first is set for 7 p.m. March
3 at the Lexington Joseph-Beth and the second is
at 7 p.m. March 22 at the Joseph-Beth in Cincinnati,
Ohio.
She
will give a public reading of her works at the Carnegie
Center for Literacy and Learning in downtown
Lexington beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March
9.
Tawada
is also one of the featured writers in the UK
Kentucky Women Writers Conference March 25-27.
For a look at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference
schedule, go to the Web
site.
To
see more of Tawada Yoko’s schedule, click here.
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