Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

Name: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
Start: 2025-03-31T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-31T13:20:00-04:00
Location: East Pyne Hall, Room 010

by Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications

Lecture Humanities

Mon, Mar 31, 2025

12 PM – 1:20 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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East Pyne Hall, Room 010

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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What is the mother tongue? Is there a language with which a person's life begins and with which they remain deeply connected? Is a foreign language really foreign? What is the function of the foreignness that a poet feels in his mother tongue?

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East Pyne Hall, Room 010

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Yoko Tawada

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Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published stories, novels, poems, plays, and essays in both languages. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, and the Goethe Medal. 2023 New Directions publishes two books, Suggested in the Stars and Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies

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