Juliet Winters Carpenter

Juliet Winters Carpenter is a professor emerita of Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts. Her first translated novel, Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe, received the 1980 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. In 2014, her translation of A True Novel by Minae Mizumura received the same award. Besides Shion Miura's The Great Passage and two-volume Forest series, Carpenter's recent translations include Mizumura's An I-Novel , Keiichiro Hirano's At the...See more

Juliet Winters Carpenter is a professor emerita of Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts. Her first translated novel, Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe, received the 1980 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. In 2014, her translation of A True Novel by Minae Mizumura received the same award. Besides Shion Miura's The Great Passage and two-volume Forest series, Carpenter's recent translations include Mizumura's An I-Novel , Keiichiro Hirano's At the End of the Matinee , and T ru Haga's Pax Tokugawana: The Cultural Flowering of Japan, 1603-1853 . Her forthcoming translations include Masatsugu Ono's At the Edge of the Wood and Kiyoko Murata's A Woman of Pleasure . Carpenter lives on Whidbey Island in Washington State. See less