Geraldine Harcourt

Geraldine Millais Harcourt (25 May 1952 – 21 June 2019) was a New Zealand translator of modern Japanese literature.

Geraldine Harcourt
Born
Geraldine Millais Harcourt

(1952-05-25)25 May 1952
Auckland, New Zealand
Died21 June 2019(2019-06-21) (aged 67)
Wellington, New Zealand
OccupationTranslator
RelativesKate Harcourt (aunt)
Miranda Harcourt (cousin)

Harcourt was born in Auckland on 25 May 1952.[1][2] She graduated from the University of Auckland, and first went to Japan in 1973.[2] Harcourt developed a close working relationship with Japanese fiction writer Yūko Tsushima,[3] and translated many of her works into English. These include:

  • Yūko Tsushima, Child of Fortune (1978)
  • Yūko Tsushima. Territory of Light (1979)
  • Yūko Tsushima, Woman Running in the Mountains (1980)
  • Yūko Tsushima, The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories (1973–1984)
  • Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls (2018)

Works by other Japanese authors translated into English by Harcourt include:

  • Shizuko Gō, Requiem (1985)
  • Hirotada Ototake, No One's Perfect (1998)
  • Yūko Tanaka, The Power of the Weave: The Hidden Meanings of Cloth (2013)
  • Takeshi Nakagawa, The Japanese House in Space, Memory, and Language (2006)

In 1990, Harcourt was awarded the Wheatland Translation Prize.[4] She won the 2018–2019 Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for her translation of Territory of Light, published by Penguin in 2017.[4][5]

Harcourt died in Wellington on 21 June 2019.[1][4]

References
  1. "Geraldine Harcourt death notice". Dominion Post. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  2. ""A bright room of her own": translating Yūko Tsushima". Victoria University of Wellington. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  3. "In memory of Geraldine Millais Harcourt". Tributes Online. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  4. "Awards ceremony and reception 2019–2019". Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture. 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
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