Stephen Snyder

Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA

He has translated works by Yoko Ogawa, Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino’s Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, and his translation of Yoko Ogawa’s Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011.

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Stephen Snyder, translator of The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

Stephen Snyder interview: 'The Memory Police resonated with readers experiencing a new sort of reality'

The translator of our October Book of the Month talks about the impact of being shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022, the Japanese fiction boom – and why this 20th-century novel speaks to 21st-century readers

All nominated books

The Memory Police

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020. A beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss from Yoko Ogawa, one of Japan’s greatest writers

By Yoko Ogawa

Translated by Stephen Snyder

Stephen Snyder

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Stephen Snyder interview: 'The Memory Police resonated with readers experiencing a new sort of reality'

All nominated books

The Memory Police

Features

The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 15: Our October Book of the Month – The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

Read an extract from The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

Stephen Snyder interview: 'The Memory Police resonated with readers experiencing a new sort of reality'

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