About Geraldine Harcourt
Lived 1952 – 2019 (aged 67). Geraldine Harcourt was a New Zealand translator.
Geraldine Millais Harcourt (25 May 1952 – 21 June 2019) was a New Zealand translator of modern Japanese literature.
Early life and education Harcourt was born in Auckland on 25 May 1952. She graduated from the University of Auckland, and first went to Japan in 1973. and translated many of her works into English. These include: Yūko Tsushima, Child of Fortune (1978) Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light (1979) Yūko Tsushima, Woman Running in the Mountains (1980) Yūko Tsushima, The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories (1973–1984) Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls (2018)
Works by other Japanese authors translated into English by Harcourt include: Shizuko Gō, Requiem (1985) Hirotada Ototake, No One's Perfect (1998) Yūko Tanaka, The Power of the Weave: The Hidden Meanings of Cloth (2013) Takeshi Nakagawa, The Japanese House in Space, Memory, and Language (2006)
Awards In 1990, Harcourt was awarded the Wheatland Translation Prize.
Death Harcourt died in Wellington on 21 June 2019.
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New Zealand translator of modern Japanese literature
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