Geraldine Harcourt

Geraldine Harcourt
Born
Geraldine Millais Harcourt

(1952-05-25)25 May 1952
Auckland, New Zealand
Died21 June 2019(2019-06-21) (aged 67)
Wellington, New Zealand
OccupationTranslator
Relatives

Geraldine Millais Harcourt (25 May 1952 – 21 June 2019) was a New Zealand translator of modern Japanese literature.

Early life and education

Harcourt was born in Auckland on 25 May 1952.[1][2] She graduated from the University of Auckland, and first went to Japan in 1973.[2]

Career

Harcourt developed a close working relationship with Japanese fiction writer Yūko Tsushima,[3] and translated many of her works into English. These include:

Works by other Japanese authors translated into English by Harcourt include:

  • Shizuko Gō, Requiem (1985)
  • Hirotada Ototake, No One's Perfect (1998)
  • Yūko Tanaka, The Power of the Weave: The Hidden Meanings of Cloth (2013)
  • Takeshi Nakagawa, The Japanese House in Space, Memory, and Language (2006)

Awards

In 1990, Harcourt was awarded the Wheatland Translation Prize.[4] She won the 2018–2019 Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for her translation of Territory of Light, published by Penguin in 2017.[4][5]

Death

Harcourt died in Wellington on 21 June 2019.[1][4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Geraldine Harcourt death notice". Dominion Post. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  2. ^ ""A bright room of her own": translating Yūko Tsushima". Victoria University of Wellington. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "In memory of Geraldine Millais Harcourt". Tributes Online. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Awards ceremony and reception 2019–2019". Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture. 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.