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Alfred Birnbaum

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Alfred Birnbaum

Alfred Birnbaum was born in the U.S. in 1955 and raised in Japan from age five. He studied at Waseda University, Tokyo, under a Japanese Ministry of Education scholarship, and has been a freelance literary and cultural translator since 1980....

His translations include Haruki Murakami's Wild Sheep Chase, Hardboiled Wonderland, The End of the World, and other works; Miyabe Miyuki's All She Was Worth; and Natsuki Ikezawa's A Burden of Flowers. He also compiled the short story anthology Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction.

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Articles by Alfred Birnbaum

Translator Relay: Alfred Birnbaum

By Alfred Birnbaum

Our “Translator Relay” series features a new interview each month. This month's translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth question. Stephen Snyder passed the…

The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matías Guili

By Natsuki Ikezawa

Right at the peak of the afternoon heat, a bus strolled into the local general store.

Translated from Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum

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The A Team

By Natsuki Ikezawa

What was going on? I asked the boy beside me in the car. His answer explained everything and nothing: The President was dead.

Translated from Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum