Translating Finnegans Wake into Japanese

Join us on Tuesday, 5th May at 6:30pm when translator and Finnegans Web co-founder Kenji Hayakawa will present a detailed and beginner-friendly overview of his ongoing translation of Finnegans Wake into Japanese. This talk will focus on Book I, Chapter 2 and will likely reveal a number of surprising facts about the Wake as well as the Japanese language!

Kenji Hayakawa is a translator and interpreter based in Dublin, Ireland. Working with the English-Japanese pair, he has translated a wide range of material including books by Yoko Tawada, Noam Chomsky, Dipesh Chakrabarty and others. He is the founder and host of Reading Finnegans Wake, a Japanese-language weekly livestream programme.

Free event, booking essential.