Geraldine Harcourt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Geraldine Harcourt

New Zealand translator of modern Japanese literature

Date of Birth: 25-May-1952

Place of Birth: Auckland, New Zealand

Date of Death: 21-Jun-2019

Profession: translator

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Geraldine Millais Harcourt (25 May 1952 – 21 June 2019) was a New Zealand translator of modern Japanese literature.
Harcourt was born in Auckland on 25 May 1952.
She graduated from the University of Auckland, and first went to Japan in 1973.
Harcourt developed a close working relationship with Japanese fiction writer Yuko Tsushima, and translated many of her works into English.
These include: Yuko Tsushima, Child of Fortune (1978) Yuko Tsushima.
Territory of Light (1979) Yuko Tsushima, Woman Running in the Mountains (1980) Yuko Tsushima, The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories (1973–1984) Yuko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls (2018)Works by other Japanese authors translated into English by Harcourt include: Shizuko Go, Requiem (1985) Hirotada Ototake, No One's Perfect (1998) Yuko Tanaka, The power of the weave: the hidden meanings of cloth (2013)In 1990, Harcourt was awarded the Wheatland Translation Prize.
She won the 2018–2019 Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for her translation of Territory of Light, published by Penguin in 2017.Harcourt died in Wellington on 21 June 2019.