Translating Modern Japanese Literature by Female Authors

Richard Donovan is an Associate Professor in translation studies and literature in the Faculty of Letters at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan. He has also worked as a translator at the Kyoto City International Relations Office. He obtained a PhD in literary translation studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 2012. In 2019 he published the book Translating Modern Japanese Literature with Cambridge Scholars, and in 2021 won the Grand Prize in the 5th JLPP International Translation Competition for his literary translations. His most recent publication, in Kansai University’s journal of the Faculty of Letters, was entitled “Ambiguity in Japanese-to-English Literary Translation as Manifested in Kawabata’s Izu no odoriko” (2024).