opfslim.blogg.se - N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto

In 2020, he was awarded membership of the Order of the Rising Sun. His translations earned him the Alcantara Prize in 1999, the Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature in 2001, the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 2008, and the Monselice Prize (Special Jury Prize for Literary and Scientific Translation) in 2012. He is the translator to Italian of the works of Banana Yoshimoto (alongside Gala Maria Follaco) and Haruki Murakami, as well as having translated some of the works of Yasunari Kawabata and Yasushi Inoue. In 2012, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs nominated him head of the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo for a five-year term. He also presided the Faculty of Political Science of the same university, where he taught Language and Culture of Japan. He currently is full professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies at L'Orientale.

The following year he moved to Osaka, where he stayed until 1989, also teaching at Osaka University. Giorgio Amitrano Order of the Rising Sun ( Italian pronunciation: born 31 October 1957) is an Italian Japanologist, translator and essayist, specializing in Japanese language and literature.Īmitrano grew up in Naples, graduating from the University of Naples "L'Orientale" his professors included Maria Teresa Orsi, Luigi Polese Remaggi and Namkhai Norbu.

Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature.

A lesser effort from Yoshimoto, yet there's a fleeting pathos to these offbeat tales of a contemporary Tokyo interpenetrated by the routines of modern office life and the animistic forces of the ancient world. ``A Strange Tale from Down by the River'' is an allegory about a woman who abandons a life of shallow sexual exploits, recognizes her own spiritual affinities with the natural world and gets married. In ``Blood and Water,'' a woman flees her parents' Buddhist sect in a provincial village, falls in love with a man in Tokyo who makes amulets and gradually comes to terms with her own religious aspirations. In the title piece, a man salvages his relationship with his lover, an antisocial acupuncturist with mysterious healing powers whom he calls Lizard, by making a pilgrimage to an ancient temple and sharing disturbing childhood secrets. Each story is told in a spare, quizzical, highly conversational style, through the eyes of characters who encounter odd coincidences and spiritual epiphanies while attempting to negotiate life's turning points. Japan's Yoshimoto (N.P.) delivers an engaging, rather lightweight collection of six stories chronicling the romantic adventures, spiritual yearnings and familial troubles of a hip set of young, Japanese professionals.