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Kozue Uzawa

Kozue Uzawa

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I'm A Traveler: a collection of tanka
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Kozue Uzawa was born in Tokyo, migrated to Canada in 1971, and received a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. She is a retired university professor. She lived in Vancouver (BC), Lethbridge (Alberta), and now she lives in Burnaby (BC). Kozue participated in the foundation of Tanka Canada in 2005, and works as editor of its English tanka journal GUSTS. She composes tanka both in Japanese and English. She also translates Japanese tanka into English and co-published Ferris Wheel: 101 Modern and Contemporary Tanka (Boston: Cheng & Tsui, 2006), and Kaleidoscope: Selected Tanka of Shuji Terayama (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 2008). Ferris Wheel received the 2007 Donald Keene Translation Award for Japanese Literature from Columbia University. Kozue is one of the twenty-five Canadian tanka poets selected by Aurora Antonovic for Atlas Poetica in 2010.

See Kozue Uzawa's website: Let's Enjoy Tanka!.

Email: uzawa@shaw.ca


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