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Kaoru Udo

うどう かおる

Udo Kaoru

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1939-01-01 （Tokyo Prefecture (now Suginami-ku, Tokyo)）
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese, French

Career

Occupations
poet, translator, lexicographer
Active Years
1961-

Education

Waseda University
Faculty of Letters / French Literature
Year of Graduation: 1961
Country: Japan

Awards

Gendai-shi Hanatsubaki Prize
2010
Work: Phantom Feet
Organization: Gendai-shi Hanatsubaki Prize Committee
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Accumulations of Winter

1987 Poetry

Uran Exercises: Poems by Kaoru Udo

1994 Poetry

Ms. Yukiyanagi: Poems by Kaoru Udo

2001 Poetry

Surya

2002 Poetry

Phantom Feet

2010 Poetry

I Became Mozart

2014 Poetry

Bibliography

  • Accumulations of Winter
  • Uran Exercises: Poems by Kaoru Udo
  • Ms. Yukiyanagi: Poems by Kaoru Udo
  • Surya
  • Phantom Feet
  • I Became Mozart
  • Poets' Love Letters (editor)

Translations by Author

  • In the Palm of the Dreaming Poet (Jean-Michel Maulpoix, trans.)
  • The Closed Garden (Régine Detambel, trans.)
  • Tales of Blue (Jean-Michel Maulpoix, trans.)
  • Edmond: Poems by Jean-Michel Maulpoix (trans.)
  • Archipelago of Bones (Marc Couver, trans.)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
lyricalexperimental
Recurring Motifs
dreamsmemoryotherness

Legacy

Kaoru Udo is a Japanese poet and translator active in postwar and contemporary poetry. She is noted for introducing French poetry to Japanese readers and for her own poetic work. She has worked on dictionary editing and translation and won the Gendai-shi Hanatsubaki Prize in 2010.

Trivia

  • Graduated from Waseda University, Faculty of Letters, French Department (1961)
  • Participated in compilation of a French-Japanese technical dictionary at Hakusuisha in the 1970s
  • Won the Gendai-shi Hanatsubaki Prize in 2010 for Phantom Feet