Ginny Tapley Takemori
@ginnytkmr.bsky.social
Literary translator from Japanese Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings, Life Ceremony, Vanishing World (Sayaka Murata), The Little House, Things Remembered And Things Forgotten (Kyoko Nakajima), Mornings Without Mii (Mayumi Inaba), and plenty more!
Immensely saddened to hear that author Higashino Keigo has died of colon cancer. He was only 68. The Devotion of Suspect X remains one of my favourite mysteries . RIP.
Kris Kosaka writes about the literary influences on Studio Ghibli (including Grave of the Fireflies). #translation #booksky #studioghibli #graveofthefireflies
How Hayao Miyazaki’s love of books influenced Studio Ghibli’s stories
Hayao Miyazaki lists books as direct sources for a number of his films including his latest, “The Boy and the Heron.”
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I am thrilled that my translation of Atsushi Sato’s Family of the Wasteland is one of the PEN Translates Award winners! This will support its publication by the fabulous Akoya Publishing next year. Congratulations to all the other winners too ❤️ #translation #booksky #literarytranslation
Submissions welcome through July 31 for the #SCBWI Pitch-Perfect Translation Grant! Assists children’s book translators in the development of a specific #translation project into English, which is not currently under contract. Up to 2 winners selected annually: www.scbwi.org/pitch-perfec... #kidlit
Pitch-Perfect Translation Grant
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators provides the resources, professional networking, and community-building opportunities that support writers, illustrators, and translators throug...
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shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoElon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
Our latest rescue - a very sweet, healthy young boy. Vet says probably not yet 2 years old, maybe only just 1. We’ll be delivering him to his foster mama on Sunday, if all goes well.
The latest buzzword from Japan 🙄 (For those who don’t speak the language, it’s pronounced nah-tsu-bah-tay, not a more intuitive English pronunciation that rhymes with, well, you know..😬)
Do you need a word to describe how you feel in the heat? I nominate ‘natsubate’
It refers to the total burnout experienced during periods of extreme heat and humidity – and never have we needed it more, writes Polly Hudson
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There is a very serious move from the Japanese government to have domestic cats declared an invasive species, opening the door for wide spread destruction of cats by animal control, who still use inhumane methods such as CO2 gassing. Please sign the petition, and share as widely as possible.
イエネコの「防除推進外来種」指定に反対――環境大臣に要望書を提出、Change.orgで署名活動を開始
公益財団法人どうぶつ基金のプレスリリース（2026年7月6日 16時30分）イエネコの「防除推進外来種」指定に反対――環境大臣に要望書を提出、Change.orgで署名活動を開始
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Minjie Chen of the Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton, has requested that a library database field called #MARC041 about #translation be made visible. Please consider sharing this with your local library team, especially those working in #metadata: www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...
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Our campaign to improve the visibility of #translation in #library catalogues is making progress. If you are a librarian, please support Minjie Chen's new request for OCLC to index #marc041, a field i...
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@ginnytkmr.bsky.social suggested another Murata story—“Faith” (trans Takemori). Murata’s at her best when she makes us question basic assumptions. Here, she asks— Why do we judge people for some beliefs and praise them for others? What’s the difference between a dupe and a person of faith?
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‘Hey, Nagaoka, wanna start a new cult with me?’ New fiction by Sayaka Murata, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
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Read Japanese Literature@readjapaneseliterature.com · last mo.RJL Episode 50 is now available! - The history of new religions in Japan, inc Aum Shinrikyo - Haruki Murakami's Underground - 7 stories show Aum's continuing influence Translations by @brianbergstrom.bsky.social + @ginnytkmr.bsky.social readjapaneseliterature.com/Podcast/Epis...
RJL Episode 50 is now available! - The history of new religions in Japan, inc Aum Shinrikyo - Haruki Murakami's Underground - 7 stories show Aum's continuing influence Translations by @brianbergstrom.bsky.social + @ginnytkmr.bsky.social readjapaneseliterature.com/Podcast/Epis...
One of these is being built in my back yard, and this is how I feel about it.
Do we really need gigantic, noisy, water-guzzling datacentres ruining our communities? In this economy? | First Dog on the Moon
Excessive heat, pollution and making climate change worse just so you can ask the computer to draw a funny dancing cabbage
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YouTube’s response to this piracy is infuriating. They are absolutely complicit in providing these pirated works a platform. Please don’t listen to audiobooks on YouTube - support authors by buying a copy, listening on an accredited streaming service, or borrowing it from your library. #booksky
YouTube Is Crawling with Pirated Audiobooks Made Using A.I.
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JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.
Wherever you are in the world (providing you've got an Internet connection) you can hear me talk about the History of Manga on 16 June. If you're in London, you can get a signed copy of the book. Please share this post to spread the word! Tickets via EventBrite, click the poster below.
The History of Manga: History, hearsay & facts
Trace the evolution of the world’s most influential art form from renowned anime and manga expert Helen McCarthy. Followed by Q&A.
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Absolutely honoured that Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings is included on this list. #translation #booksky
Who Are the Best Monsters in Literature?
I’m kind of obsessed with monsters. Not monster as in “terrible person” but monster as in “the thing living under your bed.” I can’t help it, there’s something so honest about them. A monster is a …
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Repeat after me: authors/translators have moral rights, which include the right to be attributed, and the right to integrity, which means not having their works changed without permission. Rights are rights, which means they are not optional, conditional, or selectively applied.
The latest report on translated fiction in the UK from the Booker Prizes. #translation #booksky
Young, urban and male: who is reading translated fiction in the UK now? | The Booker Prizes
As the International Booker Prize celebrates 10 years, we look at how the audience for translated fiction has changed over the past decade
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The day before yesterday I woke up to the devastating news that the brilliant literary translator Juliet Winters Carpenter had passed away. I am still processing her loss, but I shared some thoughts on FB #translation #booksky #japanese www.facebook.com/share/18UPmT...
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This has to be about the coolest ever free book promotion! Thank you @iainmaloney.bsky.social #translation #booksky #sayakamurata #earthlings #eddievedder www.facebook.com/share/p/17GN...
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It was T’s last day at work today. The admin ladies presented him with this adorable illustration of him with his wife (me) and our three cats ❤️
Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.
By the author of Blossoms In The Wind (about kamikaze pilots), Hiroshima, and Nagasaki - three must-read books. #booksky #japan
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Birds love munching on the unopened buds on our kobushi magnolia tree - this hiyodori has been having a feast! (just a couple of metres away from the bird feeder 🙄)
So glad to see Kanako Nishi published in English, translated by Allison Markin Powell, at long last. Do read Sakura, it’s wonderful - I couldn’t put it down! #translation #booksky #japaneseliterature
When Persistence Pays Off: On Translating and Publishing the Work of Kanako Nishi
This is one of those publishing stories where the author—and in this case the translator too—waited for years, certain that their work deserved a wider audience, and was forced to stand patiently b…
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Japan friends, this Sunday March 1st, from 1pm we’ll be celebrating Japanese literature in translation at Human Arts Studio in Tsukuba. Some of my literary translator friends have kindly agreed to come along and read from their work - free and open to all, so do join us! #translation #literature
Japanese Literature in English - Book Readings
March 1st @ 1 PM. Japanese literature in English is booming! We will celebrate with an afternoon of readings hosted by Tsukuba local, translator Ginny Tapley Takemori. Come and meet some of the transl...
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