Morgan Giles is a Japanese translator based in London. She’s translated a number of different writers, including Kanehara Hitomi, Furukawa Hideo, and the National Book Award-winning Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri. Find Morgan on Twitter here.

• Japanese study
  • Georgetown, Kentucky – Toyota
  • Sister City exchange
  • Paul Rush
  • Eastern Kentucky University
  • Genki Japanese
• Reading Japanese
  • 『蹴りたい背中』(Keritai senaka), Wataya Risa
  • 『蛇にピアス』(Hebi ni piasu), Kanehara Hitomi
  • Akutagawa Prize
  • 純文学 (junbungaku)
  • 選評 (senpyō) – commentary on award-winning work included in literary journals with the winning work
• University courses
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Linguistics
  • Translation workshop
  • Recommendation from professor – don’t do a master’s
• Blogging
  • Aozora Bunko – public domain Japanese literature
  • Building a network
  • Matt Treyvaud
• Translation
  • Ruth Martin
  • British Center for Literary Translation
  • The Nippon Foundation
• MEXT Scholarship
  • Waseda University
  • Taking courses in Japanese
  • Application process
  • Model MEXT applications
• Karaoke song
  • リンダリンダ, The Blue Hearts