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Announcing the winners of the Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize for 2021

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October 31, 2021

We are happy to announce the winners of the Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize for 2021.

Excerpts from Shōkenkō 蕉堅稿: The Selected Poems of Zekkai Chūshin 絶海中津 (1336-1405). Written by Zekkai Chūshin (1336-1405).

Translated by Paul Atkins. Paul Atkins is Professor of Japanese, Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington,

A Dosimeter on the Narrow Road to Oku (線量計と奥の細道, 2018). Written  by Durian Sukegawa (ドリアン助川).

Translated by Alison Watts. Alison Watts is a freelance literary translator living in Tōkai-mura, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

The Kyoko Selden Translation Prize: https://asianstudies.cornell.edu/selden-prize

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