Please mark your calendars!
On November 19th, BU will host Hiroko Oyamada, a Japanese writer who won the Akutagawa Prize (the most prestigious literary prize in Japan) a few years ago. She will be reading from her book and conversing with her American translator, David Boyd (who will read some of his translation). David is a really talented young translator who won the Donald Keene Prize for his translation of Hideo Furukawa's Slow Boat a couple of years ago.
Another young literary translator, Sam Bett, will be interpreting. Sam will also visit our class the following day. So there are at least four reasons for you to come:
1. It will be about translation
2. You will see somebody interpreting between English and Japanese
3. It will count for Culture Pass
4. It should be interesting.
Hiroko Oyamada's book, The Factory, is to appear on October 29. I have ordered it and will post a few pages on Blackboard in English and in Japanese for you to look at before the event.
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