Juliet Winters Carpenter

Juliet Winters Carpenter is a veteran translator and professor emerita of Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto. Her first translated novel, Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe, received the 1980 Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize fr the Translation of Japanese Literature. In 2014, A True Novel by Minae Mizumura received the same award as well as the American Translators Association Lewis Galantière Award. The audio edition of her translation of Shion Miura's bestselling novel The Great Passage won an Earphones Award. Carpenter's other recent translations include An I-Novel by Minae Mizumura and Pax Tokugawana: The Cultural Flowering of Japan, 1603-1853 by Toru Haga. She lives on Whidbey Island in Washington.