Japanese translator, Yumiko Kotake,
59, and Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 winner, Canadian, Alice Munro have things in
common.
With both having raised three
children, each, and dedicate much time and passion to children literature, the translator,
according to The Japan News monitored online, has been lifting the common
factors higher.
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| Yumiko Kotake |
Latest of the four works of Munro
translated into Japanese by Kotake is no other than the popular Canadian’s
short-story collection Dear Life. More interesting, the Japanese version was published
on December. 10, the same day the Swedish Academy formally presented the Nobel
Prize to Munro.
Kotake said, “I was motivated by
beginner’s luck.” Munro’s works, she noted, contain “descriptions of mundane everyday
lives, along with a wistfulness and an uplifting power that can be vividly
felt.
That’s what’s so appealing about this book.”
In 1995, she made her debut as a
translator at age 41.
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