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Margaret Mitsutani

Translator | Japanese

Margaret Mitsutani (1953–) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has lived in Japan since the mid-1970s. Her first published translation was “The Empty Can,” a short story by Kyoko Hayashi. In addition to Hayashi, she has translated novels by Kenzaburo Oe, Mitsuyo Kakuta, and Yoko Tawada, and the haiku of Koi Nagata.