A novel by Japanese writer Yu wins a US National Book Award

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Community Culture 19 November 2020

NEW YORK, November 18 (Jiji Press) – The English version of “JR Winnicki Kenguchi” (Tokyo Ueno Station) by Japanese author Meri Yu won the US National Book of Literature Award for Translated Literature on Wednesday.

“Finally, I would like to share this joy with the people of Minamisoma, who are on the road to hardship after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster,” said Yu, 52, at the awards ceremony broadcast on the National Book Awards website. One of the most prestigious literary prizes in the United States.

Since 2015, Yu has lived in Minamisuma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, which was hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent nuclear disaster at Fukushima Power Plant No. 1 of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings.

The award-winning novel was released in Japanese in 2014. It was translated by Morgan Giles, and the English version, “Tokyo Ueno Station,” was released on store shelves last year.

The work depicts areas affected by the March 2011 disasters and Japanese society despite the life of a man sharing Christmas with former Japanese emperor Akihito, now titular emperor, in 1933. The hero moved from Fukushima to Tokyo a year earlier from Tokyo in 1964. Olympiad looking for work He loses his son and wife, and dies homeless.

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