Background
Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master"s degree in contemporary German literature.
多和田葉子
Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master"s degree in contemporary German literature.
Bachelor in Literature, Waseda University, Tokyo, 1982. Master of Arts, University Hamburg, Germany, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy, University Zurich, 2000.
She writes in both Japanese and German. She received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich. In 1987 she published Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts—Anata no iru tokoro dake nani mo nai (A Void Only Where You Are), a collection of poems in a German and Japanese bilingual edition
In 1999 she became writer-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for four months.
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