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Yoko Tawada

月の逃走

  • 1 Transformation Richard III | Translations: ennoru
  • 2 Westerland oder The Waste Land | Translations: ennoru
  • 3 diagonal | Translations: enno
  • 4 Die zweite Person Ich | Translations: enfrnoru
  • 5 Vor einem hellen Vokal | Translations: enfrno
  • 6 Widder | Translations: enfrnoru
  • 7 Fukushima 24 | Translations: enfrnoru
  • 8 じんしんじこ | Translations: dezh
  • 9 月の逃走 | Translations: ennlzh
  • 10 Hamlet No See | Translations: defr
Language: japanese
Translations: english (The Flight of the Moon), dutch (De vlucht van de maan), chinese (月亮的逃跑)
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月の逃走

トイレでひとり歌っていると
月がころがりこんで来た

裸のままで
自転車に乗って
暗喩の森を駆け抜けて
月がわたしに会いに来た

外の通りを 美しい女が歯を磨きながら歩いていく
公園のベンチでは
妊婦服を着た男がリンゴジュースを飲んでいる
世紀末には健康がつきものだ

空にぽっかりあいた穴
月のような不安も月のような憂いも消えて
「のような」たちが 穴のまわりをほがらかに飛びまわる

深淵の皺は伸び
つるつるになった苦悩の表面で
詩人たちがスケートを始める

月 ー わたしの — となりの

© 多和田 葉子/Yoko Tawada
Audio production: Haus für Poesie / 2017

Translations:

Language: english

The Flight of the Moon

I was singing on the toilet
when the moon
came rolling in

bare naked
on a bicycle
racing through a forest of metaphor
the moon came to meet me.

Along the road outside
a beautiful woman walks by, brushing her teeth.
On a park bench
a man in a maternity dress is drinking apple juice.
At the end of the century health is always in full phase.

A hole in the sky drops open.
Distress like the moon, a gloom like the moon are gone
and the likes
fly brightly round and round that hole.

The deep folds of the abyss smooth.
Across the now-blank suffering face
poets start to skate.

The moon... mine... another.

Translated by Bruno Navasky
Language: dutch

De vlucht van de maan

toen ik alleen op de wc te zingen zat
is de maan
aan komen tuimelen

naakt
op de fiets
snelde de maan het kortste pad af door het metaforenbos
om mij te zien

buiten op straat
loopt een mooie vrouw haar tanden te poetsen
op een bankje in het park
drinkt een man in positiekleding appelsap
het fin de siècle heeft nu eenmaal iets met gezondheid

in de hemel een gapend gat
maanachtige bezorgdheid en ook maanachtige angst verdwijnen
'achtiggen'
fladderen vrolijk rond het gat

de kreukels van de afgrond strijken zich glad
op het spiegelgladde oppervlak van zorgen
beginnen dichters te schaatsen

maan—van mij—naast mij

Vertaling: Ivo Smits
Language: chinese

月亮的逃跑

一个人在厕所唱歌时
月亮
滚进来

光着身子
骑上自行车
穿过暗语的森林
月亮来与我相会

漂亮的女人边刷牙边走在
外面的大路上
公园的长椅上
穿着孕妇装的男人喝着苹果汁
世纪末离不开健康

天空突然裂开一个大洞
月亮的不安和忧愁一起消失
“类似这样”的东西
在大洞的周围爽快地飞翔

深渊的皱纹伸展
在苦恼变得光滑的表面上
诗人们开始溜冰

月亮……我的……旁边的

Translated by Tian Yuan
previous poem
   (じんしんじこ)
9 / 10
nächstes Gedicht
(Hamlet No See)   
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Yoko Tawada

多和田 葉子

photo © private
* 23.03.1960, Tokyo, Japan
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko)  was born in Tokyo in 1960, educated at Waseda University and has lived in Germany since 1982, where she received her Ph.D. in German literature. She received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for The Bridegroom Was a Dog. She writes in both German and Japanese, and in 1996, she won the Adalbert-von-Chamisso Prize, a German award recognizing foreign writers for their contributions to German culture. She also received the Goethe-Medal, an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany and the prestigious Kleist Prize (2016).

 photo © Florian Thoss
Publications
  • Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts / Anata no iru tokoro dake nanimo nai

    Gedichte und Prosa

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 1987

  • Das Bad

    Kurzroman

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 1989

  • Wo Europa anfängt

    Gedichte und Prosa

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 1991

  • Inu muko iri

    Kodansha, 1993

  • Ein Gast

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 1993

  • Tintenfisch auf Reisen

    Erzählungen

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 1994

  • Seijo densetsu

    Ōta Shuppan, 1996

  • Talisman

    literarische Essays

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 1996

  • Aber die Mandarinen müssen heute abend noch geraubt werden

    Traumtexte

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 1997

  • Verwandlungen

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 1998

  • Futakuchi otoko

    Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1998

  • Opium für Ovid, ein Kopfkissenbuch für 22 Frauen

    Prosa

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 2000

  • Yōgisha no yakō ressha

    Seidosha, 2002

  • Überseezungen

    Prosa

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 2002

  • Das nackte Auge

    Erzählung

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 2004

  • Was ändert der Regen an unserem Leben?

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 2005

  • Sprachpolizei und Spielpolyglotte

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 2007

  • Schwager in Bordeaux

    Roman

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 2008

  • Das Bad.

    Zweisprachige Neuausgabe, japanisch-deutsch

    2010

  • Abenteuer der deutschen Grammatik

    Gedichte

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 2010

  • Yuki no renshūsei

    Shinchōsha, 2011

  • Etüden im Schnee

    Roman

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 2014

  • Kentoshi

    (The Last Children of Tokyo)

    Kodsansha, 2014

  • Ein Balkonplatz für flüchtige Abende

    Poetischer Roman

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 2016

  • Memoirs of a Polar Bear

    translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky

    Granta Books, 2017

  • Sendbo-o-te

    Roman

    Aus dem Japanischen von Peter Pörtner, Originaltitel Kentoshi

    Tübingen: Konkursbuchverlag, 2018

  • The Last Children of Tokyo

    novel [published as The Emissary in the US]

    translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani

    Portobello Books/Granta Books, 2018

  • Paul Celan und der chinesische Engel

    Roman

    Tübingen: konkursbuchverlag, 2020

Awards
  • 1990 Förderpreis für Literatur der Stadt Hamburg

  • 1991 Gunzō-Nachwuchspreis

  • 1993 Akutagawa-Preis

  • 1993 Lessing-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg

  • 1996 Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis

  • 1997 Villa Aurora-Stipendium

  • 2002 Bunkamura Prix des Deux Magots

  • 2005 Goethe-Medaille

  • 2011 Murasaki-Shikibu-Literaturpreis

  • 2012 Yomiuri-Literaturpreis

  • 2013 Erlanger Literaturpreis für Poesie als Übersetzung

  • 2015 Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz

  • 2016 Kleist-Preis

  • 2017 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation with Susan Bernofsky

  • 2018 Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille

  • 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature for The Emissary (shared with translator Margaret Mitsutani)

Links
  • Yoko Tawada - Official Homepage

  • Yoko Tawada @ konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke

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