2006

Oct. 22. Universite de Montreal, reading, contact Yuko Yamade

Oct. 24. Japan Foundation, Toronto, reading

Oct. 25. Public Library, New York, Symposium “Ehon”, presentation with Bettina Brandt

Oct. 27. University of Pennsylvania, reading

Oct. 30. Goethe-Institut, New York, reading

31.10 . 18:00 Lesung in 301 Philosophy Hall / Columbia University, N.Y.

Nov. 1. Tufts University, reading

Nov. 2. Brown University, reading

Nov. 3. Amherst University, reading

Dec. 28. MLA, Presidential Forum “The Sounds of Poetry, The Poetry of Sounds”

2007

April, Penn State University, State College, “Imaginary Cities,” reading with Bettina Brandt

2008

March ﾐ April Washington University, St.Louis, Writer in Residence, contact Mike Luetzeler

2009

YOKO TAWADA
was born in Tokyo in 1960, educated at Waseda University. Since 1982, she has been living in Germany and has recently moved from Hamburg to Berlin. With her debut "Missing Heels" she was awarded the Gunzo Prize for new writers in 1991. In 1993 she received the prestigious Akutagawa-Prize for "The Bridegroom was a Dog," and in 1996 she won the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, a German award to foreign writers recognized for their contribution to German culture. Most recently, in 2005, she was honored with the Goethe Medaille.

Writer-in-Residence Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades Oct.-Nov 1996
Writer-in-Residence M.I.T. Boston Feb.-May 1999
Writer-in-Residence University of Kentucky April 2004
Writer-in Residence Deutsches Haus of New York University Nov.-Dec. 2004
Writer-in-Residence Washington University in St.Louis March-April 2008
Writer-in-Residence Stanford University Feb.2009
Writer-in-Residence Cornell University April 2009

New!
The Nacked Eye 2009 New Direktions, New York http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/04/books/the-new-global-novel-of-disorientation

Books in English
- The Bridegroom Was a Dog: novels. published by Kodansha International, in New York 1998 ( www.amazon.com
- Where Europe Begins. New Directions, New York 2002
- Facing the Bridge: novels. New Directions, New York. forthcoming spring 2007)