Yōko tawada scattered all over the earth

In 2006 Tawada moved to Berlin, where she currently resides. In 2000 she received her doctorate in German literature from the University of Zurich, where Sigrid Weigel, her thesis advisor, had been appointed to the faculty. She left the business to study at Hamburg University, and in 1990 she received a master's degree in contemporary German literature. She received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, and upon graduation moved to Hamburg, Germany, where she started working with one of her father's business partners in a book distribution business. In 1979, at the age of 19, Tawada took the Trans-Siberian Railway to visit Germany. She attended Tokyo Metropolitan Tachikawa High School. Her father was a translator and bookseller. Tawada has won numerous literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Goethe Medal, the Kleist Prize, and a National Book Award. Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany.