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

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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

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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

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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 The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization that acts as a network for the exchange of knowledge between writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, agents, librarians, educators, booksellers ...

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,

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 - website

Avery Fischer Udagawa on Words Without Borders

Avery Fischer Udagawa on Global Literature in Libraries Initiative

Avery Fischer Udagawa on Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators

Biography

Awards and honors

Translations

References

External links

See also