Best Translated Book Award
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Edition 5 (2012) Winner
Kiwao Nomura
ノムラ キワオ
Nomura Kiwao
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1951-10-20 （Saitama Prefecture, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Writer, Critic, Lecturer
- Active Years
- 1970-
- Influenced By
- Gozo Yoshimasu, William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Rekitei Prize for Young Poets | — | — | — | winner |
| — | Takami Jun Prize | — | — | — | winner |
| 2012 | Best Translated Book Award | Spectacle & Pigsty | — | Best Translated Book Award organization | winner |
| 2020 | 38th Modern Poetry Prize | Twilight Saudade | — | The Japan Poets Association | winner |
Rekitei Prize for Young Poets
Result:
winner
Takami Jun Prize
Result:
winner
Best Translated Book Award
2012
Work:
Spectacle & Pigsty
Organization:
Best Translated Book Award organization
Result:
winner
38th Modern Poetry Prize
2020
Work:
Twilight Saudade
Organization:
The Japan Poets Association
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura
2011 PoetryA selection of Nomura's representative poems translated into English, showcasing his linguistic experimentation, repetitions, and striking imagery.
linguistic experimentationrepetitionerotic imagerydarkness
Translations
- Spectacle & Pigsty (English translation)
The Day Laid Bare
2020 PoetryAn English translation of Nomura's poetry exploring fragments of everyday life and the instability of meaning through repetition.
everyday lifefragmentsinstability of meaning
Translations
- The Day Laid Bare (English translation)
Dried River
1987 PoetryOne of his early poetry collections, characterized by rhythmic language and repeated imagery.
naturerepetition
Repeated Roams
1992 PoetryA poetry collection themed on repetition and wandering.
repetitionwandering
Bibliography
- Dried River (1987)
- Repeated Roams (1992)
- Under the Sun without Character (1993)
- Distribution of the Wind (1999)
- New Inspiration (2003)
- Spectacle (2006)
- plan14 (2007)
- Z O L O (2009)
- Twilight Saudade (2019)
Translations of Works
- Spectacle & Pigsty (English translation)
- The Day Laid Bare (English translation)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Avant-garde poetry emphasizing linguistic experimentation, manipulating rhythm, semantics, image, punctuation, and repetition.A tone mixing philosophical elements and whimsy, producing effects of astonishment and disorder.
- Recurring Motifs
- repetitionfragmented imageryeroticismnight/darkness
Legacy
Regarded as a leading figure in contemporary Japanese poetry. His linguistically experimental work and international translations have drawn attention abroad and influenced subsequent poets.
Quotes
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Nomura's work plays with rhythm, semantics, image, gender, punctuation, and repetition in radical and diverse ways, often within the same short stanza.
Source: Wikipedia article (citing The Rumpus and others) (2011) -
What we find in innovative Japanese poetries like Gozo Yoshimasu's and Kiwao Nomura's has, as far as I know, no equivalents in contemporary poetry in English. The mix of the philosophical and the whimsical makes for a tone that is absolutely weird to Westerners.
Source: Forrest Gander (interview) (2012)
Trivia
- Official website: http://www.kiwao.com/index2.htm (in Japanese)
- Won the Best Translated Book Award in 2012 for 'Spectacle & Pigsty'
- His work has been translated and published internationally in journals and anthologies