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Brian Bergstrom

Translator | Japanese

Brian Bergstrom is a Montréal-based lecturer and translator. His translations have appeared in publications including Granta, Aperture, LitHub, Mechademia, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, and Elemental: Earth Stories. His translation of Trinity, Trinity, Trinity by Erika Kobayashi (Astra House, 2022) won the 2022 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. His most recent translation is Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (Astra House, 2024) by Marxist philosopher Kōhei Saitō.