Yuten SAWANISHI

A portrait of Yuten SAWANISHI.
  • Asia
  • Eastern Asia
  • Japan
Japanese

Yuten SAWANISHI 澤西祐典 (fiction writer, scholar; Japan) is the author of Furamingo no mura [The Village of Flamingos] (2011), which received the Subaru Literary Prize; Moji no shōsoku [Letters of Letters] (2017); and Ame to karasu [Rain and Raven] (2018). His story “Filling Up with Sugar” appears in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, which was edited by Jay Rubin with a preface by Haruki Murakami. Sawanishi teaches at Ryukoku University and serves as a coordinator of the Kyoto Writers Residency. His participation was made possible by the University of Iowa's Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS) and the Stewart Memorial Fund. 

Happening Now

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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