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Damian
Flanagan is a writer and critic interested in Japan, East Asian affairs and world literature.
In
2003 he became the first Westerner
to publish a book in Japanese (日本人が知らない夏目漱石)
on celebrated Japanese author Natsume Soseki
(1867-1916)
and in 2005 his translation of Soseki's writings on Britain (The
Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London) won the 2005
Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese
Literature. Click here for an
introduction to the book.
Damian has
also contributed major critical introductions to new editions of
Soseki's The Gate (published
by Peter Owen in January
2006), Endo Shusaku's Scandal (published
in March 2006) and Soseki's masterpiece Kokoro (published
in February 2007). In November 2007 Kodansha International published
a major new book in Japanese (世界文学のスーパースター夏目漱石）about
Damian's intense personal interest in Soseki's
writings and in
March 2011 Peter Owen published Soseki's famous novel The Three Cornered
World with
a new introduction and
afterword by Damian.
As
well as his writings on Japan, Damian is currently working on
a
series about the world's great writers and a project which
he describes as a 'grand
satirical fantasy'. Welcome to his world.
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NEWS
Latest blog....
The
new edition of The Three Cornered
World
with an
introduction and afterword by Damian has
been published.
Recent
media:
Read
Damian's short piece in the London Standard
on the Tohoku Tsunami.
(14 Mar 2011)
Damian
appeared on World News Today on BBC4 and BBC
World speaking on the subject of the unexpected political and
psychological impact of earthquakes.
(16 Mar 2011) |
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