Translator, poet and past MacArthur Fellow Khaled Mattawa (Fugitive Atlas) and award-winning writer Hiroko Oyamada (The Hole) with translator David Boyd read from their work as part of the 2023-24 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, hosted by the Program in Creative Writing.
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About Khaled Mattawa
Photo credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Khaled Mattawa is the author of numerous books of poetry and a critical study of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. His most recent collection of poetry is Fugitive Atlas. Mattawa has coedited two anthologies of Arab American literature and translated many volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry. His awards include the Academy of American Poets Fellowship prize, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He currently teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan.
About Hiroko Oyamada & David Boyd
Photo credit: Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd.
Born in Hiroshima in 1983, Hiroko Oyamada won the Shincho Prize for New Writers for The Factory, which was drawn from her experiences working as a temp for an automaker’s subsidiary. Her following novel, The Hole, won the Akutagawa Prize.
Photo courtesy David Boyd
David Boyd is assistant professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has translated fiction by Izumi Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, and Kanoko Okamoto, among others. His translations of novellas by Hideo Furukawa (Slow Boat; Pushkin Press, 2017) and Hiroko Oyamada (The Hole; New Directions, 2020) have won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.
