Juliet Winters CarpenterJuliet Winters Carpenter studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. In 1980, Carpenter's translation of Abe Kobo's novel Secret Rendezvous (Mikkai) won the Japan–Uited States Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. She is the translator of all of Mizumura's English-language translations. Read More Read Less