Gloria Komai

Gloria Mari-Ko Komai (1922 – 2008) was a British poet and translator of Japanese descent who fellow writer and translator James Kirkup described as being 'the first poet [he] knew to introduce Japanese sensibility into her work'. and classical dancer Norah Howard Morgan (b. 1896), the daughter of a Sheffield optician. She had a sister named Fuji-Ko. and her sister's John Galsworthy. Some of these were published in the collection Never Despair of Gardens. All of these were published by Sylvan Press.

In 1954, Komai contributed translations of some poems by France Prešeren to what the editors described as 'a pioneer literary collaboration between two nations which are widely separated by geography and history... for the first time English and Slovene literary colleagues have made a common effort to present to the English-speaking world a selection from the poems by the greatest Slovene national poet, France Prešeren.'

In 1950, in a review of her poems in Poetry Quarterly, Komai was described as 'a poet of unusual sensibility.' The reviewer wrote that 'the images she summons forth to celebrate the seasons have an almost three-dimensional nature'.

In 2020, Gloria Komai was included in Apocalypse: An Anthology.

Death Gloria Komai died in Eastbourne in 2008.