Person

Emmerich, Michael

1975

Michael Emmerich (b.1975) received his PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University in 2007. He is the editor of Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers (Kodansha International), and the translator of books by Yasunari Kawabata, Banana Yoshimoto, and Gen'ichirō Takahashi. His most recent translation, Hiromi Kawakami's Manazuru (Counterpoint), was awarded the 2010 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Emmerich teaches Japanese literature at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Japanologe, Literaturwissenschaftler, Uebersetzer