Avery Fischer Udagawa is a translator of children's books from Japanese.
Biography
Udagawa grew up in Kansas and studied English and Asian Studies at
St. Olaf College
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in
Minnesota
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. She studied at
Nanzan University
is a private, Catholic and coeducational higher education institution run by the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) in the Shōwa Ward of Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is considered to be one of the most prestigious private universiti ...
,
Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most pop ...
, on a
Fulbright Fellowship
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, and at the
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
The , or IUC, is a Japanese language school located in the Minato Mirai area of Yokohama, Japan. Operated by a consortium of universities, the IUC provides advanced-level instruction to both undergraduate and graduate students and is considered ...
,
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...
, later earning an MA in Advanced Japanese Studies from The
University of Sheffield
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– Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield
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. She writes, translates, and works in international education near Bangkok. She is a campaigner for literary translation, and literary translators, especially with the
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
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.
Awards and honors
* 2024 Honor,
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
The Mildred L. Batchelder Award, or Batchelder Award, is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the publisher of the year's "most outstanding" children's book translated into English and published in the U.S.
The M ...
for her translation of ''
The House of the Lost on the Cape
is a Japanese novel written by Sachiko Kashiwaba. It was initially serialized in the ''Iwate Nippo'' daily newspaper from May 10, 2014, to July 4, 2015. Kodansha later published the novel in print with cover art by Yukiko Saito on September 1 ...
'', written by Sachiko Kashiwaba and illustrated by Yukiko Saito.
* 2022 Winner,
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
The Mildred L. Batchelder Award, or Batchelder Award, is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the publisher of the year's "most outstanding" children's book translated into English and published in the U.S.
The M ...
for her translation of ''Temple Alley Summer'', written by Sachiko Kashiwaba and illustrated by Miho Satake.
* 2022 Honor,
Audie Award for Middle Grade Title The Audie Award for Middle Grade Title is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association The Audio Publishers Association (APA) is the first and only not-for-profit trade organization of the audiobook industry in the ...
for her translation of ''Temple Alley Summer'', written by Sachiko Kashiwaba and narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama.
Translations
* ''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
External links
Avery Fischer Udagawa - websiteAvery Fischer Udagawa on Words Without BordersAvery Fischer Udagawa on Global Literature in Libraries InitiativeAvery Fischer Udagawa on Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators
See also
*
List of translators of children's books
There is a growing interest in international children's literature, including books in translation. This is recognised in several prizes, including the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation and the ALSC Mildred L. Batchelder Award ...
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Literary translators
American translators
21st-century American women
Japanese–English translators