Support Program for Translation and Publication (2019 - 2020)

Asia and Oceania

Country/
Language		 Title of the Book Recipient
(Publisher)		 Author/
Translator		 Type of Support
KOREA/
Korean		 Cultural Reconstruction Theory Luciole Ryōta Fukushima/
Eunjung　Cha;
Jiyoung Ahn		 Translation and Publication
CHINA/
Chinese		 A history of Japanese language education in contemporary China Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Yūsuke Tanaka/
Xu Yiping		 Translation and Publication
VIETNAM/
Vietnamese		 House of the sleeping beauties Nha Nam Publishing and Communications, J.S.C. Yasunari Kawabata/
Lương Việt Dũng		 Translation and Publication

The Americas

Country/
Language		 Title of the Book Recipient
(Publisher)		 Author/
Translator		 Type of Support
U.S.A./
English		 Star New Directions Yukio Mishima/
Sam Bett		 Translation and Publication

Europe, Middle East and Africa

Country/
Language		 Title of the Book Recipient
(Publisher)		 Author/
Translator		 Type of Support
ITALY/
Italian		 One woman and the war Dynit Manga S.r.l. Ango Sakaguchi,
(Manga)Yōko Kondō/
Maria Teresa Orsi;
(Manga) Asuka Ozumi		 Translation and Publication
SPAIN/
Spanish		 Yōkai Museum: The art of Japanese supernatural beings Satori　Publishing Kōichi Yumoto/
Daniel Aguilar		 Translation and Publication
NORWAY/
Norwegian		 Convenience store woman Cappelen Damm AS Sayaka Murata/
Magne Tørring		 Translation and Publication
NORWAY/
Norwegian		 Six Four (64) Kagge Forlag AS Hideo Yokoyama/
Tara Ishizuka Hassel		 Publication
FRANCE/
French		 En longeant la mer de Kyôto à Kamakura: Kaidô-ki Le Bruit du temps Unknown/
Claire Akiko-Brisset:
Jacqueline Pigeot;
Daniel Struve;
Sumie Terada;
Michel Vieillard-Baron		 Translation and Publication
ALBANIA/
Albanian		 OUT OMBRA GVG Publishing House Natsuo Kirino/
Anisa Trifoni		 Translation and Publication
UKRAINE/
Ukrainian		 Some prefer nettles Calvaria Publishing House Jun’ichirō Tanizaki/
Igor Dubinskyi		 Publication
SLOVENIA/
Slovenian		 Inheritance from Mother Litera Publishing Minae Mizumura/
Iztok Ilc		 Translation
CZECH/
Czech		 One hundred poems DHARMAGAIA Fujiwara no Teika/
Helena Honcoopová		 Translation and Publication
CZECH/
Czech		 Deep river Albatros Media a.s Shusaku Endō/
Vlasta Winkelhöferová		 Translation and Publication
BULGARIA/
Bulgarian		 The sailor who fell from grace with the sea Apostrof, an imprint of Alto Communications and Publishing Ltd. Yukio Mishima/
Dora Barova,
Pana Barova-Ozcan		 Translation and Publication
LITHUANIA/
Lithuanian		 The temple of the golden pavilion Sofoklis Yukio Mishima/
Kugevičiūtė Dagija　		 Translation and Publication
RUSSIA/
Russian		 A collection of tales from Uji Hyperion Publishing House Unknown/
Yuri Sviridov		 Publication

Russian		 To buy a pair of gloves Samokat Publishing House Nankichi Niimi/
Elena Baibikov		 Translation and Publication
EGYPT/
Arabic		 The Bells of Nagasaki Dar Elmaref Takashi Nagai/
Maher Elsherbini		 Translation and Publication
EGYPT/
Arabic		 I'm a Cat vol.3 Mahrousa for Publishing, Information and Press Service Sōseki Natsume/
Maher Elsherbini		 Translation and Publication

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