Nonprofit organization PEN America announced on Friday nominees for its 2023 Literary Prizes, and it has nominated Tomihiko Morimi‘s The Tatami Galaxy (Yojō-Han Shinwa Taikei) novel for PEN Translation Prize. The prize honors book-length translation of prose from any language into English. Emily Balistrieri translated the novel. The prize for the award is US$3,000.
HarperCollins’ HarperVia imprint published The Tatami Galaxy novel on December 6. The release will be followed with the sequel novel Tatami Time Machine Blues in summer of 2023. Balistrieri is translating both novels. Balistrieri previously translated Morimi’s The Night is Young, Walk on Girl novel, which inspired a 2017 anime film directed by Masaaki Yuasa off a screenplay by Ueda.
Ohta Publishing released Morimi’s The Tatami Galaxy novel in 2005, with Nakamura illustrating the cover. The novel inspired…
