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Amelia Fielden
Titles published by MET Press:
In Two Minds - Responsive tanka with Kathy Kituai.
Tanka Teachers Guide - Contributor.
The Time of This World - Translated tanka of Kawano Yūko.
The Maternal Line - The 13th Tanka Collection of Kawano Yūko.
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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 Yūko (6 books), Kitakubo Mariko (2 books), Tanaka Noriko (2 books), Kawamura Hatsue, Kuriki Kyoko, Kojima Yukari, Matsudaira Meiko, Tawara Machi, Konno Mari. To date Amelia has translated, or co-translated, 16 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. 2010 saw the publication in Tokyo of the award-winning Breast Clouds, written by Tanaka Noriko, and in 2011 MET Press produced The Maternal Line, Amelia's translations of the 13th and penultimate collection by Kawano Yūko (1946-2010). Amelia has also had published 6 collections of her own English tanka. The most recent is Light On Water (Ginninderra Press,2010). In addition, she has collaborated with fellow Australian poet Kathy Kituai in the composition of 2 books of responsive tanka, In Two Minds (MET Press, 2008), and Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (Interactive Press, 2011). With Saeko Ogi she has produced a bilingual responsive tanka diary, Weaver Birds (Ginninderra Press, 2010). Forthcoming with the same poet, and also bilingual, is Words Flower. Amelia has been tanka editor for the journals Moonset and Simply Haiku. She is on the selection committee for Take Five, and one of the 6-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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