Geraldine Harcourt
{{Short description|New Zealand translator (1952–2019)}}
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| birth_name = Geraldine Millais Harcourt
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1952|05|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|06|21|1952|05|25|df=y}}
| death_place = Wellington, New Zealand
| occupation = Translator
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| relatives = {{ubl|Kate Harcourt (aunt)|Miranda Harcourt (cousin)|Thomasin McKenzie (niece)}}
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Geraldine Millais Harcourt (25 May 1952 – 21 June 2019) was a New Zealand translator of modern Japanese literature.
Early life and education
Harcourt was born in Auckland on 25 May 1952.{{cite news |url=https://deaths.dompost.co.nz/obituaries/dominion-post-nz/obituary.aspx?n=geraldine-harcourt&pid=193362201 |title=Geraldine Harcourt death notice |date=11 July 2019 |work=Dominion Post |accessdate=13 July 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://web-japan.org/trends01/article/020109fea_index.html |title=Walla? What walls? A translator breaks down barriers |date=9 January 2002 |website=Trends in Japan |accessdate=13 July 2019}} She graduated from the University of Auckland, and first went to Japan in 1973.
Career
Harcourt developed a close working relationship with Japanese fiction writer Yūko Tsushima,{{cite web |url=https://www.victoria.ac.nz/events/2019/04/a-bright-room-of-her-own-translating-yuko-tsushima |title="A bright room of her own": translating Yūko Tsushima |date=9 April 2019 |publisher=Victoria University of Wellington |accessdate=13 July 2019}} and translated many of her works into English. These include:
- Yūko Tsushima, Child of Fortune (1978)
- Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light (1979)
- Yūko Tsushima, Woman Running in the Mountains (1980)
- Yūko Tsushima, The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories (1973–1984)
- Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls (2018)
Works by other Japanese authors translated into English by Harcourt include:
- Shizuko Gō, Requiem (1985)
- Hirotada Ototake, No One's Perfect (1998)
- Yūko Tanaka, The Power of the Weave: The Hidden Meanings of Cloth (2013)
- Takeshi Nakagawa, The Japanese House in Space, Memory, and Language (2006)
Awards
In 1990, Harcourt was awarded the Wheatland Translation Prize. She won the 2018–2019 Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for her translation of Territory of Light, published by Penguin in 2017.{{cite web |url=http://www.keenecenter.org/download_files/Awards-Ceremony-2019-web.jpg |title=Awards ceremony and reception 2019–2019 |year=2019 |publisher=Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture |accessdate=13 July 2019}}
Death
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Category:Japanese–English translators
Category:New Zealand expatriates in Japan
Category:University of Auckland alumni
Category:20th-century New Zealand translators
Category:21st-century New Zealand translators