Spring Garden — Tomoka Shibasaki 柴崎友香：《春之庭院》
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize in 2014, Tomoka Shibasaki’s novella Spring Garden explores loneliness, alienation and desire for simple human contact amidst increasing urbanisation in Tokyo. Shibasaki will be working with a translator in this session. Assisted by a translator, HKUSPACE lecturer Eric Kwong will be talking to Shibasaki about Japanese culture, literature and language.
2014年度日本芥川賞得主柴崎友香在其中篇小說《春之庭院》中，探討隨著東京城市化人們如何變得寂寞、疏遠，並渴求人與人之間的基本接觸。本活動將由翻譯員協助進行，並由HKUSPACE講師江仁傑主持。
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Tomoka Shibasaki was born in 1973 in Osaka, studied Human Geography as her major in university.