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Yuki Tejima
TranslationYuki Tejima is a Japanese-English translator whose upcoming translations include two novels by Mizuki Tsujimura, Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon and How to Hold Someone In Your Heart. Also coming in 2025 are Then Why’d You Ask Me To Come? by Risa Wataya and Someone to Watch Over You by Kumi Kimura. Raised in Los Angeles, she moved to Tokyo in 2014 where she began her career in literary translation after a decade of translation and copywriting work in film and television, as well as the food and fashion industries. A recipient of the JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) International Translation Competition Prize in 2020, she has since been selected for the Emerging Translator Mentorships at the National Centre for Writing (2022) and ALTA (2023). She was a recipient of the PEN Presents grant in 2023.
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