Translating Haruki Murakami

This blog is meant as an open forum where translators of Haruki Murakami can share ideas and discuss solutions to problems encountered in the process of translating his works. It was launched by two translators of Murakami into Norwegian and Polish, Ika Kaminka and Anna Zielinska-Elliott. Some of us have collaborated in the past, and many of us are in touch regularly by e-mail, but the publication of the new novel in 2013 served as a catalyst for the creation of an online translation blog.

Saturday, July 20, 2013

What Gets Lost in Translation: Struggling with "Suddenly"

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Blue Suddenly , Mira Schor drawing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mira_Schor_Blue_Suddenly.jpg Anna Zielinska-Elliott writes: A...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Dutch Translation of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki to Appear in January 2014

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Atlas Contact has announced the upcoming publication of the Dutch translation of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki . The book is being translated by ...
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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Visualizing Translation #2

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In the last chapter of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki,  Tsukuru sits waiting at platform 9/10 at Shinjuku station and observes an E257 express tra...
Friday, July 5, 2013

More Visualizing...

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This is an artist's rendering of Tazaki Tsukuru sitting at Shinjuku Station (?) and looking at trains, which happens to be one his favor...

A 2007 Interview with the Korean translator of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki.

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Here is an old (but interesting) interview with  Yang Ŏk-Kwan, the translator of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki. (Readers who don't read Korea...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki released in Korean 4 days ago! (how did we miss it...?)

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The Korean translation of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki was published on July 1.  As far as we know, it is the first translation of the novel in...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Visualizing Translation: What Does Ao (Blue?) Look Like?

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Anna Zielinska-Eliott who is currently working on the Polish translation writes: When translating we often try to visualize people and ...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

A Review of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki from Japanese Literature Publishing and Promotion Center

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On Haruki Murakami’s New Novel: Liszt’s “Years of Pilgrimage” Turned Extravaganza It’s not unusual for the title of a Haruki Mur...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Is Tsukuru Tazaki just another South of the Border?

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... asks Frederike at www.japanliteratur.net Japanliteratur.net, an online German magazine published a story comparing the latest Murakami...

How Good is Murakami? – asks The Daily Beast

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How Good Is Murakami? Jun 24, 2013 4:45 AM EDT He is one of the biggest-selling literary novelists in the world, and practically a d...
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