{"id":46606,"date":"2021-01-27T22:24:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T02:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=46606"},"modified":"2021-01-27T22:24:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T02:24:30","slug":"the-japan-foundation-of-new-york-literary-series-yu-miri-and-her-translator-morgan-giles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2021\/01\/27\/the-japan-foundation-of-new-york-literary-series-yu-miri-and-her-translator-morgan-giles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Japan Foundation of New York Literary Series: Yu Miri and her translator Morgan Giles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2-YouTube-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2-YouTube-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2-YouTube-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2-YouTube-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2-YouTube.png 1281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Japan Foundation, New York have recently launched&nbsp;<strong><em>JFNY Literary Series<\/em><\/strong>. For this new talk series, we will be inviting notable writers in Japanese literature and their translators to discuss their work, speak on the art of translation, and touch upon the current literary scene in Japan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For our inaugural session, we have invited&nbsp;<strong>Yu Miri<\/strong>&nbsp;and her translator&nbsp;<strong>Morgan Giles<\/strong>. Yu\u2019s novel&nbsp;<em>Tokyo Ueno Station<\/em>, which was translated by Giles, won the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature. They are joined by moderator Dr. Stephen Snyder, interpreter Bethan Jones, and curator Allison Markin Powell from the collective, \u201cStrong Women Soft Power\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is now available to watch on our YouTube channel! Watch the event here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfny.org\/event\/jfny-literary-series-yu-miri-x-morgan-giles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.jfny.org\/event\/jfny-literary-series-yu-miri-x-morgan-giles\/<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Foundation, New York have recently launched&nbsp;JFNY Literary Series. For this new talk series, we will be inviting notable writers in Japanese literature and their translators to discuss their work, speak on the art of translation, and touch upon the current literary scene in Japan.&nbsp; For our inaugural session, we have invited&nbsp;Yu Miri&nbsp;and her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-c7I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46621,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46606\/revisions\/46621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}