多和田葉子（たわだ・ようこ）さんのレクチャー

多和田葉子（たわだ・ようこ）さんというとても有名な日本の作家が、秋休みの後にノートルダムに来て、レクチャーをします。多和田さんはもう２０年ぐらいドイツに住んでいて、ドイツ語、日本語、英語で小説や詩を書いていて、国際的に活躍しています。

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/多和田葉子

貴重（きちょう）な機会（きかい）なので、ぜひみなさんレクチャーを聞きに行って下さい。

Dr. Tawada has won numerous literary awards in Japan and Germany, and has gained recognition in the English-speaking world for her short story collections. In Japan she has received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. In Germany she won the Adelbert-von-Chamisso Prize for her contributions to German culture. She also received the Prize in Literature from the City of Hamburg, the Lessing Prize, and in 2005, on the 173rd anniversary of Goethe’s death, the Goethe-Medal, an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany awarded by the Goethe Institut. Outside of Japan and Germany, Tawada’s fiction, poetry, and essays have been featured in journals and anthologies in France, China, Italy, Holland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. She has served as writer-in-residence throughout the U.S., including at the Villa Aurora, M.I.T., University of Kentucky, Deutsches Haus of New York University, Washington University, Stanford University, and Cornell University.