Ryoko Sekiguchi

Born in Tokyo in 1970, Ryoko Sekiguchi is a poet, author and translator. Her Japanese debut received the Cahiers de la poésie contemporaine prize in 1988. She translated works by Pierre Alferi, Atiq Rahimi and Jean Echenoz into Japanese, and texts by Yoko Tawada and Gôzô Yoshimasu, classical Japanese poetry and manga into French. From 2003 onward, she also wrote in French, publishing numerous poetry collections and books about taste and its connections with presence, love and mortality. Her book Nagori received the Coup de cœur du prix Rungis des Gourmets and the Prix Mange, livre! in 2019.