Anita Brookner in Japan

Compiled by Kitamura (Ito) Yukiko

This website aims to introduce how Anita Brookner is received in Japan. Brookner is one of the best-known contemporary British novelists in Japan. From 1988, excellent Japanese translations by Onodera Takeshi were published by Shobun-sha as "the Brookner Collection." In 2005, on the NHK weekly radio series "Culture Hour," Brookner's Hotel du Lac was chosen as one of the masterpieces of the world literature and interpreted by Onodera. As criticism in Japanese, we can find Books and Articles on Brookner.

Japanese Translations of Brookner's Novels

Aki no hoteru [Hotel du Lac], trans. Onodera Takeshi, Tokyo: Shobun-sha, 1988.
Kekkonshiki no shashin [Family and Friends], trans. Onodera Takeshi, Tokyo: Shobun-sha, 1989.
Eikoku no yujin [A Friend from England], trans. Onodera Takeshi, Tokyo: Shobun-sha, 1990.
Ikoku no aki [Latecomers], trans. Onodera Takeshi, Tokyo: Shobun-sha, 1992.
Uso [Fraud], trans. Onodera Takeshi, Tokyo: Shobun-sha, 1994.
Maneku onna tachi [Lewis Percy], trans. Onodera Takeshi, Tokyo: Shobun-sha, 1996.
Aru jinsei no kadode [A Start in Life], trans. Onodera Takeshi, Tokyo: Shobun-sha, 2004.

*Hotel du Lac, Kodansha World Books 16 (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1996) was published in English.