{"id":94093,"date":"2025-05-20T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/events-archive\/mieko-kawakami-sisters-in-yellow\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:05:24","slug":"mieko-kawakami-sisters-in-yellow","status":"publish","type":"events-archive","link":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/events-archive\/mieko-kawakami-sisters-in-yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"MIEKO KAWAKAMI: Sisters in Yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00bbAn overnight sensation and a feminist icon\u00ab [New York Times]. Even before her international bestseller \u00bbBreasts and Eggs\u00ab [trans. Sam Bett &#038; David Boyd], Mieko Kawakami had already established herself as one of the most influential voices in contemporary Japanese literature. With sharp insight, layered nuance, and subtle humor, her novels explore the role of women in Japanese society. She writes with intimate proximity to the emotional and everyday lives of her characters, touching on issues such as bullying, beauty standards, and the struggle for self-determination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having appeared digitally at the ilb in 2022, Kawakami now returns to the Berliner Festspiele for the German premiere of her new novel \u00bbSisters in Yellow\u00ab [trans. Laurel\u00a0Taylor\u00a0and Hitomi Yoshio]. The novel follows seventeen-year-old Hana as she grows up in poverty, yearns for independence, finds female solidarity on the fringes of society \u2013 and ultimately becomes entangled in a parallel criminal world. Speaking about the origins of the book, she remarked: \u00bbI was interested in exploring what a \u2018Breaking Bad\u2019 kind of story might be like if it weren\u2019t such a macho drama\u00ab [The New York Times].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Mieko Kawakami<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moderated by Miriam Zeh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marie Bloching reads<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simultaneous translation by Stephanie Haschke und Mai Rapsch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event will be held in Japanese with simultaneous translation into German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With sign language translation in DGS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The anniversary program is made possible by the LOTTO Foundation Berlin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","tags":[],"jct-program-properties":[808],"jct-ilb-years":[906],"jct-program-categories":[796],"class_list":["post-94093","events-archive","type-events-archive","status-publish","hentry","jct-program-properties-livestream-en","jct-ilb-years-2024-en","jct-program-categories-evening-program"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MIEKO KAWAKAMI: Sisters in Yellow &#8211; international literature festival berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/events-archive\/mieko-kawakami-sisters-in-yellow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MIEKO KAWAKAMI: Sisters in Yellow &#8211; international literature festival berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00bbAn overnight sensation and a feminist icon\u00ab [New York Times]. 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