Minae Mizumura
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Minae Mizumura

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Minae Mizumura is an internationally renowned novelist and critic
based in Tokyo. She has published four books of fiction, three books
of nonfiction, and coauthored a compilation of epistolary essays. Her
writing in English has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian,
HuffPost, and The New York Review of Books.

She is acclaimed for her audacious experimentation and skillful
storytelling. Her work pays homage to the Japanese literary tradition
while breaking new ground. Four of her books, all of which won major
awards including the Yomiuri Literature Award, have been translated
into English by Juliet Winters Carpenter in close collaboration with
the author.

Born in 1951, Mizumura moved with her family from Tokyo to Long
Island, New York when she was twelve. After studying fine art in
Boston and then living briefly in Paris, she went on to study French
literature at Yale College and Yale Graduate School. Mizumura has
taught modern Japanese literature at Princeton, the University of
Michigan, and Stanford. A former resident novelist of the
International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, she is now a
member of its Advisory Committee.
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