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Amelia Fielden
Titles published by MET Press:
In Two Minds - Responsive tanka with Kathy Kituai.
Tanka Teachers Guide - Contributor.
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Amelia Fielden, an Australian, is a professional translator and an enthusiastic writer of tanka in English. Retired in 2003 from the full-time position of senior Japanese translator for the Australian government in Canberra, Amelia now works freelance, specialising mainly (but not exclusively) in the tanka of contemporary Japanese women poets such as Kawano Yuko (4 books), Kitakubo Mariko ( 2 books), Kawamura Hatsue, Kuriki Kyoko, Kojima Yukari, Matsudaira Meiko, and Tawara Machi. To date Amelia has translated, or co-translated, 14 collections of modern Japanese tanka. Her first book with Kozue Uzawa, Ferris Wheel : 101 Modern and Contemporary Japanese Tanka, published by Cheng & Tsui, Boston,was awarded the 2007 Donald Keene Prize For Translation of Japanese Literature by Columbia University, New York. In 2008 a second co-translation with Kozue Uzawa, Kaleidoscope, an anthology of the work of the controversial male poet and playwrite, Terayama Shuji, was published by Hokuseido, Tokyo, to critical acclaim. 2008 also saw the publication in Tokyo of Kitakubo Mariko's exciting anthology, Cicada Forest, and of Doorway to the Sky by award-winning younger poet, Tanaka Noriko. 2009 will herald the appearance of 2 further collections translated by Amelia; one is to be published in the USA, the other in Japan. Amelia has also had published five collections of her own English tanka. The most recent is Baubles,Bangles & Beads (Ginninderra Press, 2007). Her latest venture is In Two Minds, a book of responsive tanka written in tandem with fellow Australian poet, Kathy Kituai, and published by Modern English Tanka Press, in 2008. Amelia is tanka editor for Moonset Literary Newspaper and one of the six poet panel for the site www.tankaonline.com. These years Amelia and her husband divide their time among Canberra, Australia's inland capital; their seaside home north of Sydney; Seattle, where a daughter and 2 grandchildren are currently living; and Japan, where Amelia lectures and conducts translation consultations on an ad hoc basis.They have 5 adult children,7 grandchildren (4 of them in Sweden !),and 2 labradoodles. Amelia's passions are Japan, poetry, the sea, dogs, family and friends, and travelling (in no particular order of preference!). Interview of Amelia Fielden by Robert D. Wilson in Simply Haiku, vol. 4, no. 3, Autumn 2006.
Email: anafielden@hotmail.com
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