{"id":32855,"date":"2015-04-14T07:39:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T17:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=32855"},"modified":"2021-09-17T13:50:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T23:50:37","slug":"award-winning-japanese-author-minae-mizumura-presents-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/14\/award-winning-japanese-author-minae-mizumura-presents-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning Japanese author Minae Mizumura presents symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Minae Mizumura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Renowned Japan\u00a0writer\u00a0Minae Mizumura<\/a> will speak at a\u00a0free public symposium and a graduate students and faculty seminar at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> in April\u00a0to discuss the recently published English translation of her book,\u00a0Nihongo ga horobiru toki<\/em> (“The Fall of Language in the Age of English”).<\/p>\n

Nihongo ga horobiru toki<\/em> addresses the impact that English as a universal language has on national languages and literatures. Mizumura’s historical and theoretical insights into language and translation have relevance for the humanities in general, and especially resonate in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s complex linguistic landscape. The book has become a national bestseller upon its release in Japan, and received the prestigious Kobayashi Hideo Prize.<\/p>\n

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