Luk Van Haute
Born in Belgium, Luk Van Haute is currently based in Ghent where he works as a translator into Dutch. He is well known for his numerous articles on Japan published in newspapers and magazines. He has translated several works of Japanese literature into Dutch, including Oe Kenzaburo’s Seventeen and Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro. This interview addresses his first encounters of Oe’s works and his editing and translation of an anthology of Japanese short stories.
Interview Video
*The interview video was released on September 30, 2022.
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Luk Van Haute
Born in Belgium in 1963, Luk Van Haute researched Japanese literature at the University of Tokyo and obtained his PhD from the University of Ghent with a dissertation on the works of Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo. He has translated more than 30 books into Dutch, including works by Oe, Kawabata Yasunari, Murakami Haruki, and Kawakami Hiromi, and has compiled and translated an anthology of 42 modern Japanese short stories. Van Haute is the author of two books on Japan and numerous articles on Japanese culture and society for various newspapers and magazines. He has also lectured on these subjects at several universities.
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Interviewer: Kanehara Mizuhito
Born in Okayama Prefecture in 1954. Professor at Hosei University and translator of over 600 children’s books, Young Adult novels, and other works, including A Pack of Lies (Kaiseisha, 1998), The Great Blue Yonder (Kyuryudo, 2002), the Percy Jackson series (co-translation, Holp Shuppan Publications), Blackham’s Wimpy (Fukutake Shoten, 1990), A Man without a Country (NHK Publishing, 2007), The Moon and Sixpence (Shincho Bunko, 2014), and A Girl I Knew / The Inverted Forest (Shinchosha, 2022). Also the author of essay collections including Hon’yaku wa meguru [Translator, Traveler] (Shunyodo Shoten, 2022) and adaptations of Japanese classics including Kana tehon chushingura [The Forty-seven Ronin] (Kaiseisha, 2012) and Ugetsu monogatari [Tales of Moonlight and Rain] (Iwasaki Shoten, 2012). Website: Kanehara Mizuhito
Photo: Nezu Chihiro
