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Kodansha Essay Award こうだんしゃエッセイしょう

Edition 21 (2005)

EssayLiterary award

Winners

1 people
Arthur Binard あーさー・びなーど award

A collection of essays by an American-born poet who moves between Japanese and English, writing humorously about linguistic gaps and everyday discoveries. It combines the distance of seeing Japanese as a foreign language with a deep curiosity that moves inside the language itself.

Essays that view Japanese from afar, dive into its depths, and travel through a universe of words.

221 pages
Japanese languagelinguistic sensitivityessayscross-cultural experiencehumor