WRITER

Yoko Tawada

1960 - Today

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Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoko Tawada has received more than 211,928 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Yoko Tawada is the 4,685th most popular writer (up from 4,938th in 2019), the 1,219th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,226th in 2019) and the 98th most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Bridegroom Was a Dog
1998
Wo Europa anfängt
1991
Facing the Bridge
2007
Die Kranichmaske, die bei Nacht strahlt
1995
Talisman
1996
Chikaku
Japanese Art, Exhibitions, Fine Arts
2005
Scattered All over the Earth
Refugees, Fiction, Language and languages
2022
Three Streets
Language and languages, Translations into English
2021
Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts
Translations into German, Japanese literature, Japanese poetry
1987
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
New York Times reviewed, Fiction, short stories (single author)
1998
Das Fremde aus der Dose
1992
Yōgisha no yakō ressha
2002

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yoko Tawada ranks 4,685 out of 7,302. Before her are Samo Chalupka, Gillian Rubinstein, Jean Vautrin, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Sultan Bahu, and Shudraka. After her are Louis Bromfield, Sakutarō Hagiwara, François Tristan l'Hermite, Aleksandrs Čaks, FM-2030, and Zabel Sibil Asadour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Yoko Tawada ranks 242. Before her are Michael Hardt, Yōichi Takahashi, Robert John Burke, Johnny Briceño, Ana Botín, and Moshe Kahlon. After her are Mohamed Timoumi, Reza Hosseini Nassab, Shinya Tsukamoto, Ivan Gudelj, Alexandre Czerniatynski, and Carol Alt.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoko Tawada ranks 1,219 out of 6,245. Before her are Naoemon Shimizu (null), Koji Suzuki (1957), Daisuke Gōri (1952), Hashimoto Gahō (1835), Masaaki Yuasa (1965), and Shinobu Sekine (1943). After her are Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886), Kansai Yamamoto (1944), Shinya Tsukamoto (1960), Akina Nakamori (1965), Yuto Nagatomo (1986), and Takako Doi (1928).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yoko Tawada ranks 98. Before her are Yōko Ogawa (1962), Yoshiki Tanaka (1952), Saneatsu Mushanokōji (1885), Sakyo Komatsu (1931), Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931), and Koji Suzuki (1957). After her are Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886), Shōhei Ōoka (1909), Riichi Yokomitsu (1898), Takeshi Shudo (1949), Kenjirō Tokutomi (1868), and Takashi Tezuka (1960).

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