Sawako’s co-translators are Jack Yung, Don Mee Choi, and Joyelle McSweeney. Sawako has also received a National Endowment for the Humanities Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publications for Fall, 2022. Congratulations to Sawako on both of these notable achievements!
Literary Arts
Date
January 6, 2022
Assistant Professor Sawako Nakayasu Receives Translation Prize, Fellowship
Assistant Professor of Literary Arts Sawako Nakayasu is one of four co-translators awarded the Modern Language Association’s 2021 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of Literary Work for their translation of Yi Sang: Selected Works, published by Wave Books.