多和田葉子
March 23, 1960 – present
Birth place: Nakano, Tokyo, Japan
Browse magazine works (first published 1993)
Yōko Tawada is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German, making her an exophonic writer. In 2018, she was awarded the National Book Award for Translated Literature for her novel The Emissary.