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.