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Toshiya Kamei

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Toshiya Kamei

Toshiya Kamei holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Arkansas. His translations include Liliana Blum's The Curse of Eve and Other Stories (2008), Naoko Awa's The Fox's Window and Other Stories (2010), Espido Freire's Irlanda (2011), and Selfa Chew's Silent Herons (2012)....

Other translations have appeared in The Global Game (2008), Sudden Fiction Latino (2010), and My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (2010).

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Articles by Toshiya Kamei

Reunion

By Ryuichiro Utsumi

One day, when he went home after a long absence, he found the apartment empty.

Translated from Japanese by Toshiya Kamei

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Blue Pansies

By Espido Freire

Being unaware of your wife's secrets is irritating, but not knowing your lover's secrets is ridiculous.

Translated from Spanish by Toshiya Kamei

Damned Spring

Before Vanessa, I had other girlfriends, but none of them was memorable or worthy of appearing in my scrapbook.

Translated from Spanish by Toshiya Kamei

From “Irlanda”

By Espido Freire

My cousin Irlanda was more beautiful than I remembered.

Translated from Spanish by Toshiya Kamei

Stalin’s Wife

By Liliana V. Blum

Moira and I wait for Stalin's wife in a downtown café.

Translated from Spanish by Toshiya Kamei

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Last Rites

By Enrique Serna

I don't want to go for nothing. Have they really given up all hope for her? I ask with my eyes fixed on the desk, forcing myself not to stutter, not to rush.

Translated from Spanish by Toshiya Kamei