Ginny Tapley Takemori

Ginny Tapley Takemori is a British translator of contemporary Japanese literature based in Ibaraki, Japan. She is the English translator of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, among other novels and works. Tapley Takemori was involved in the creation of Women in Translation Month, and led a series of articles published on LitHub called 10 Women Authors We Want to See Published, that highlighted untranslated women authors from a given language. She is also a co-founder of a freelance women literary translator collection called Strong Women, Soft Power, along with Allison Markin Powell and Lucy North.

Biography After spending her early years living in Tanzania, Tapley Takemori moved to Barcelona in the 1980s after graduating from high school. Prior to beginning her career as a full-time freelance translator of Japanese, she worked at the Ute Korner Literary Agency in Barcelona and translated works from Spanish and Catalan. The agency she worked at represented the Japan Foreign Rights Centre and she sold the translation rights to books including The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto. She also worked as an editor at the Japanese publishing house Kodansha.

Selected works

Children's books

Novels

Short story collections