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Winner of the William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation Dazai's reputation has not waned a bit in seventy years. Reading Mark Gibeau's brilliant translation will show you why. --Roger Pulvers, award-winning translator, film director, and author of LIV

Dazai's reputation has not waned a bit in seventy years. Reading Mark Gibeau's brilliant translation will show you why. -Roger Pulvers, award-winning translator, film director, and author of LIV

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Osamu Dazai, Dazai and his lover drowned themselves in the Tamagawa Canal in western Tokyo. Mark Gibeau is a literary translator and scholar of postwar Japanese literature. His previous translations include fiction by Yasunari Kawabata, Jun'ichir Tanizaki, Shgor Yamamoto, Sakumi Tayama, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Saky Komatsu among others. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, Canberra.

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