Geraldine Harcourt
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Born
25 May 1952
Geraldine Millais Harcourt
25 May 1952
Auckland, New Zealand
Died21 June 2019 (aged 67)
Wellington, New Zealand
OccupationTranslator
Relatives
- Kate Harcourt (aunt)
- Miranda Harcourt (cousin)
- Thomasin McKenzie (niece)
Geraldine Harcourt | |
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| Born | Geraldine Millais Harcourt 25 May 1952 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Died | 21 June 2019 (aged 67) Wellington, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Translator |
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Geraldine Millais Harcourt (25 May 1952 – 21 June 2019) was a New Zealand translator of modern Japanese literature.
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]
Career
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)
