Juliet Winters Carpenter
Juliet Winters Carpenter (born 1948) is an American translator of modern Japanese literature. Born in the American Midwest, she studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. After completing her graduate studies in 1973, she returned to Japan in 1975, where she became involved in translation efforts and teaching.Carpenter is a devotee of traditional Japanese music and is a licensed instructor of the koto and shamisen. She is professor emeritus at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto and has been involved in the Japanese Literature Publishing Project(JLPP), a government-supported project translating and publishing Japanese books overseas.
Carpenter retired to Whidbey Island in Washington State with her husband Bruce, professor emeritus of Tezukayama University. They have three children: Matthew, Graham, and Mark.
Carpenter's translation of Kōbō Abe's novel ''Secret Rendezvous'' ((密会, Mikkai) won the 1980 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Her translation of Minae Mizumura's novel ''A True Novel'' (本格小説, Honkaku Shōsetsu) won that same award for 2014-2015 and earned numerous other awards including the 2014 Lewis Galantière Award of the American Translators Association. ''Once Upon a Time in Japan'', a book of folk tales which she co-translated with Roger Pulvers, received the 2015 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award for Best Multicultural Book.
Carpenter won the 2021-2022 Lindsey and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for a lifetime achievement as a translator of modern Japanese literature, with particular reference to her recent translation of Mizumura Minae’s ''An I-Novel'' (Columbia University Press, 2021)
''An I-Novel,'' translated by Carpenter, won the 2019-20 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation.
Her translation of ''The Great Passage'' by Shion Miura, an audiobook read by Brian Nishii, won the 2017 Golden Earphones Award. Provided by Wikipedia
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A lost paradise / by Watanabe, Junichi, 1933-
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A lost paradise / by Watanabe, Jun'ichi, 1933-2014
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Salad anniversary / by Tawara, Machi, 1962-
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The Kidai Shōran scroll : Tokyo street life in the Edo period / by Ozawa, Hiromu, 1947-, Kobayashi, Tadashi, 1941-
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Heritage culture and business, Kyoto style : craftsmanship in the creative economy / by Murayama, Yūzō, 1953-
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Pax Tokugawana : the cultural flowering of Japan, 1603-1853 / by Haga, Tōru, 1931-2020
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At the end of the matinee / by Hirano, Keiichirō, 1975-
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An I-novel / by Mizumura, Minae
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Shadow family / by Miyabe, Miyuki, 1960-
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The last shogun : the life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu / by Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996
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An I-novel / by Mizumura, Minae
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Memories of wind and waves : a self-portrait of lakeside Japan / by Saga, Junʼichi, 1941-
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The fall of language in the age of English / by Mizumura, Minae
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The fall of language in the age of English / by Mizumura, Minae
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Words to live by : Japanese classics for our time /
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Clouds above the hill : a historical novel of the Russo-Japanese War / by Shiba, Ryōtarō, 1923-1996
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Raku : a legacy of Japanese tea ceramics / by Raku, Kichizaemon, 1949-, Raku, Atsundo, 1981-
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