Overcoming Expectations: Mieko Kawakami on Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami and Madeleine Thien
Overcoming Expectations: Mieko Kawakami on Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami and Madeleine Thien
7:00pm
Saturday, October 24, 2020
45 mins
Award-winning Japanese poet and writer Mieko Kawakami published her first novel in English this year. Hear from the author of Breasts and Eggs, an exploration of identity and womanhood that awarded Kawakami with Japan’s most prestigious literary honour, the Akutagawa Prize.
Interviewer: Madeleine Thien
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Award-winning Japanese poet and writer Mieko Kawakami published her first novel in English this year. Hear from the author of Breasts and Eggs, an exploration of identity and womanhood that awarded Kawakami with Japan’s most prestigious literary honour, the Akutagawa Prize.
Interviewer: Madeleine Thien
English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.