Yuko Taniguchi
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Yuko Taniguchi (born in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese American poet and novelist.
Life
She graduated from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University and from the University of Minnesota with a Master of Fine Arts degree.
She teaches at the University of Minnesota.[1]
Awards
- 2008 American Book Award (The Before Columbus Foundation)
- Finalist, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize[2]
- Finalist, 11th Annual Asian American Literary Awards
- 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book
- 15th Annual Skipping Stones Honor Awards
- Finalist, Literary Fiction category for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards[3]
- Honorable Mention, The 2007 Gustayus Myers Center Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights
Works
Poetry
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Novels
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References
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External links
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Categories:
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- American poets of Asian descent
- American women writers of Asian descent
- American women novelists
- University of Minnesota faculty
- University of Minnesota alumni
- American writers of Japanese descent
- Writers from Yokohama
- Japanese emigrants to the United States
- American novelists of Asian descent
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American poets
- American women poets
- American Book Award winners
- Novelists from Minnesota
- American women academics