January 31 (Sat.) - SWET 2009 New Year’s Party
SWET 2009 New Year’s Party and talk with children’s literature translator Cathy Hirano
Date: January 31, 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Fee: 6,000 yen
Place: Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan
Yurakucho Denki North Bldg, 20th Floor
1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
(Tel. 03-3211-3161)
Access: Yurakucho Station, JR railway; Hibiya Station on Hibiya and Chiyoda lines. For detailed directions, see the FCCJ site or fax SWET (03-3430-1740).
Reservations required by January 28 by e-mail or fax: 03-3430-1740
Fee: Talk and Party 6,000 yen; talk only (6:00-7:00 p.m.) 3,000 yen
Come help cheer in SWET’s twenty-ninth New Year’s, and enjoy the occasion to expand professional networks, strengthen collegial friendships, and talk shop and make new connections. The party will be preceded by a talk with translator Cathy Hirano.
Cathy Hirano, best known for her translations of children’s and young adult literature, is a long-term resident of Japan based in Takamatsu, Shikoku. She has also translated numerous books and other works on a variety of non-fiction subjects. Her translation of The Friends, by Yumoto Kazumi, for Farrar, Straus & Giroux, won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Best Fiction, as well as the Mildred Batchelder Award, and her translation of Yumoto’s The Spring Tone was shortlisted for a Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Her recent translation of Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, the first novel in the hugely popular fantasy series by Uehashi Nahoko was released by Arthur A. Levine Books in the summer of 2008.
In a mainly Q&A format, Hirano will talk about collaboration among translator, editor, and author, particularly in translating literature, and discuss the differences between translating children’s/YA literature and other types of works. She will also read from some of her works.
Cathy Hirano’s translated books will not be available at the event, however, participants may order books through local bookstores or online booksellers and bring to the event for signing.
