Motoyuki Shibata (b. 1954) is an essayist and translator of American literature who teaches at the University of Tokyo.
He has translated the work of Paul Auster, Steven Millhauser, Stuart Dybek, Richard Powers, Rebecca Brown, and Steve Erickson, among others.
He received the Kodansha Essay Award for The Half-Hearted Scholar in 1992, the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities for American Narcissus in 2005, and the Japan Translation Cultural Prize for his translation of Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon in 2010.
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