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Avery Fischer Udagawa

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Avery Fischer Udagawa is a translator of children's books from Japanese.

Biography

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Udagawa grew up in Kansas and studied English and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She studied at Nanzan University, Nagoya, on a Fulbright Fellowship, and at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, later earning an MA in Advanced Japanese Studies from The University of Sheffield. She writes, translates, and works in international education near Bangkok.[1] She is a campaigner for literary translation, and literary translators, especially with the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.[2]

Awards and honors

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Translations

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  • Temple Alley Summer, by Sachiko Kashiwaba, ills. Miho Satake (Restless Books, 2021)
  • J-Boys: Kazuo’s World, by Shogo Oketani (IBC Publishing, 2013; Stone Bridge Press, 2011)
  • "Festival Time" by Ippei Mogami, in The Best Asian Short Stories 2018, illus. Saburo Takada (Kitaab, 2018)
  • "Swing" by Ippei Mogami, in Kyoto Journal 82, May 2015
  • "Mirror, Mirror", by Sachiko Kashiwaba, in A Tapestry of Colours 1: Stories from Asia (Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2021)
  • "House of Trust", by Sachiko Kashiwaba, in Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction—An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories (Stone Bridge Press, 2012) https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=b9vODwAAQBAJ
  • "First Claw", by Sachiko Kashiwaba, in Words Without Borders, April 2020
  • My Japan, by Etsuko Filliquet (Kaiseisha, 2017)
  • Baby Chick, by Jun’ichi Kobayashi, ullus. Eigoro Futamata (original work by Kornei I. Chukovskii), (Doshinsha, 2009) - co-translated with Etsuko Nozaka
  • "Inside" by Rio Shimamoto, in Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women (Kodansha International, 2006)
  • "The Shadow of the Orchid" by Nobuko Takagi, in Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women (Kodansha International, 2006)

References

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  1. ^ "Translator Spotlight: Avery Fischer Udagawa". 30 April 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
  2. ^ "Home". averyfischerudagawa.com.
  3. ^ https://www.ibby.org/awards-activities/awards/ibby-honour-list Retrieved 2 Sept 2024.
  4. ^ "American Library Association announces 2024 Youth Media Award winners" (PDF). American Library Association. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  5. ^ @ALALibrary (24 January 2022). "Batchelder 2022: "Temple Alley Summer," pub. by Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers, written by Sachiko Kashiw…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2022-10-29. Retrieved 2022-09-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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See also

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