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Takami Nieda | The Beautiful Hustle: (In)Visibility, Advocacy, and the Work of Translation

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Lecture Humanities

Tue, Nov 10, 2026

12 PM – 1:20 PM EST (GMT-5)

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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An asian woman in a black sweater standing with arms crossed. Flyer for Takami Nieda vertical bar The Beautiful Hustle: ( In ) Visibility, Advocacy, and the Work of Translation
Drawing on the joys and travails of her own career as a Japanese-English literary translator, Takami Nieda highlights the visibility, advocacy, and often unseen labor behind bringing literature across languages from building partnerships with authors to challenging inequities that continue to shape who gets translated, published, and heard.

Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Humanities Council.

Photo Credit: Adriane Mathiowetz

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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Takami Nieda

PTIC Fall 2026, Translator in Residence

Princeton University

Takami Nieda is a translator from Japanese, whose work includes the YA novels “GO” by Kazuki Kaneshiro and “The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart” by Chesil. Other notable works include “Finger Bone” by Hiroki Takahashi, winner of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize, and the forthcoming “The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park” by Michiko Aoyama. She serves as the Japanese mentor for the American Literary Translators Association’s Emerging Translator Mentorship Program and is a member on the advisory board of the University of Washington’s Translation Studies Hub.

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