Michael Gallagher (translator)

Michael Gallagher (born 1930) is an author and translator of Japanese literature. His translation of Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973,^[1] while his nonfiction work Laws of Heaven was the winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award in Theology.^[2] As a Jesuit scholastic, he spent three years teaching English at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he directed several plays, including The Teahouse of the August Moon.^{[citation needed]} He left the Jesuit order^[3] and served briefly as a paratrooper in Korea.

Translations

• Japan Sinks by Sakyo Komatsu
• The Sea and Poison by Shusaku Endo
• Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
• Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
• The Pornographers by Nozaka Akiyuki

Books

• Dust and Gingko Leaves (published in Japanese translation by Kodansha)
• Laws of Heaven (1992)

References

1. ^ Gallagher, Michael (January 1987). "Sidestepping the challenge of peace". Commonweal (New York City) 114 (1). http://search.opinionarchives.com/Summary/Commonweal/V114I1P9-1.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-15. "MICHAEL GALLAGHER, a free-lance writer and translator from the Japanese, received a National Book Award nomination in 1973..." 
2. ^ "Winners of the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award, 1979–2008" (PDF). Alpha Sigma Nu. 2009-03-13. http://www.alphasigmanu.org/book_awards/past-book-award-winners.pdf. Retrieved 2009-08-15. 
3. ^ Gallagher, Michael; D.J. Enright (1969-01-16). "Pornographers in Translation". The New York Review of Books (New York City) 12 (1). http://www.nybooks.com/articles/11432. Retrieved 2009-08-15. 

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