Work

WHAT I DO

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I'm primarily a translator specialising in fiction, non-fiction, art-related and academic texts, and I also have extensive experience as a copywriter and editor. My current clients include authors, artists, museums, academics, restaurants, and computer game companies, and in the past I have worked with magazines, fashion companies, travel agencies, and designers. I'm a recipient of a 2017 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, the 2016 Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize, and the 2012 Japanese Literature Publishing Project's Inaugural Translation Contest.

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Rates vary from project to project. Please feel free to get in touch for a quote or general enquiries. 

SeLECTEd translations

Some of the translations I've worked on in the past:

• Misumi Kubo, 'The Left Bank of the Flu', GRANTA (online)

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• Wei Yourou, 'Paper Alien', Asia Literary Review, January 2018

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• Tomoka Shibasaki, Spring Garden, Pushkin Press, January 2017

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• Naocola Yamazaki, Friendship for Adults, Strangers Press, January 2017

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• Misumi Kubo, Mikumari, Strangers Press, January 2017

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• Sizuca Abe, Snow Houses, Creek and River, January 2017

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• Shoichiro Takezawa, The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Living Among the Rubble (Lexington Press, 2016)

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• Yoichi Funabashi, Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th-Century Japan, Bloomsbury Press, 2015

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• Mitsuyo Kakuta short story ‘The Memory’ for Words Without Borders (online)

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• Naocola Yamazaki short story 'A False Genealogy'​ on catapult.co (online)

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• Aoko Matsuda short story, 'Smartening Up' for GRANTA (online)

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• Tsutomu Mizusawa - ‘The Space Between Dreams and Reality’, in Ikuko Miyazaki, Puppenwerke/ Die Augenstämme

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• Catalogues for the 2012 ‘Beads in Africa’, 2013 Jikken Kobo and Kano Mitsuo, and 2015 Isamu Wakabayashi and ‘All Began in Kamakura’ Exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama

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• ‘The Wonders of Art’ by Lee Ufan, for 2012-3 Anish Kapoor Exhibition at the Leeum Samsung Gallery

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• Catalogue for 'Tokyo Rrose Sélavy: Shuzo Takiguchi and Marcel Duchamp' exhibition at Keio University Art Space, 2012

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• 'Decaying Swamp Cities' by Jun Tanaka, in Japan Forum (Vol 23, June 2011)

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• 'El Anatsui' exhibition catalogue, National Museum of Ethnography, Japan (2010)

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• Sushi: Basic Techniques and Hygiene (Cross Media Ltd., 2008)

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