Yōko Tawada Books in Order
Yōko Tawada has written 15 books, published between 1991 and 2025. The first book is Where Europe Begins (1991) and the newest is Archipelago of the Sun (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 15
- Published
- 1991–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,596 in 9 of 15 books
- Reading time
- 27–40 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,596 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 15 titles with a page count on record.
Yoko Tawada, born on 23 March 1960, is a Japanese writer based in Berlin who writes in both Japanese and German. Tawada has been writer-in-residence at MIT and Stanford University. Awards won by Tawada include the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Goethe Medal and a National Book Award. The 15 catalogued books run from Where Europe Begins (1991) to Archipelago of the Sun (2025), and include The Bridegroom Was a Dog (1993), Memoirs of a Polar Bear (2014) and The Emissary (2014).
How many Yōko Tawada books are there?
Yōko Tawada has 15 books, released between 1991 and 2025.
Yōko Tawada Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 15 Yōko Tawada books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Where Europe Begins1991 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/419912081/4
- 2The Bridegroom Was a Dog1993 · 168 pages · confirmed 1/419931681/4
- 3The Naked Eye2004 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/420042281/4
- 4Facing the Bridge2007 · 186 pages · confirmed 1/420071861/4
- 5Portrait of a Tongue2013 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/420131601/4
- 6Memoirs of a Polar Bear2014 · 252 pages · confirmed 1/420142521/4
- 7The Last Children of Tokyo2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 8The Emissary2014 · 138 pages · confirmed 1/420141381/4
- 92018–1/4
- 102020–1/4
- 113 Streets2021 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/42021641/4
- 12Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 13Spontaneous Acts2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 14Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue2025 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/420251921/4
- 152025–1/4
Yōko Tawada books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Trilogy in order
3 booksStandalone books
12 books12 Yōko Tawada titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Yōko Tawada books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 15 Yōko Tawada books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Yōko Tawada
Start with Where Europe Begins (1991), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Yōko Tawada book?
Archipelago of the Sun (2025) is the newest Yōko Tawada book released so far.
Is there a new Yōko Tawada book coming?
No next Yōko Tawada book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Yōko Tawada has won
Wikidata records 14 awards for Yōko Tawada. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Nelly Sachs Prize2025Won
- Carl Zuckmayer Medal2018Won
- National Book Award for Translated Literature2018Won
- Kleist Prize2016Won
- Erlangen Literature Prize for Poetry in Translation2013Won
- Yomiuri Prize2012Won
- Noma Literary Prize2011Won
- Murasaki Shikibu Prize2011Won
- Tanizaki Prize2003Won
- Sei Itō Award2003Won
- Bunkamura Les Deux Magots Literature Award2002Won
- Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature2000Won
Yōko Tawada at a glance
- Still publishing
- Yōko Tawada published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Yōko Tawada books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,596 pages across the 9 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 186 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Yōko Tawada books, 6 of 15, were published in the 2020s.
What the Yōko Tawada books are about
10 of the 15 Yōko Tawada books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: language and languages is tagged on 3 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Language and languages 3 of 10 books
- Japan 2 of 10 books