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Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子) is a Japanese writer who has lived in Germany since 1982 and writes in both Japanese and German. Born in Tokyo in 1960, she read Russian literature at Waseda University, later taking a master's degree in contemporary German literature at the University of Hamburg and a doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich; she has been based in Berlin since 2006. Her fiction, poetry, plays and essays turn on language, translation and displacement, and include *The B...