Anthony H. Chambers
for his translation of Akinari Ueda's Tales of Moonlight and Rain

Anthony H. Chambers is Professor of Japanese at Arizona State University. Professor Chambers is widely known for his studies of the novelist Jun'ichirô Tanizaki and is the author of Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki's Fiction. He has translated numerous works of modern and classical Japanese literature, including writings by the 13th-century priest and poet Kamo no Chômei and fiction by Tanizaki. Professor Chambers has also taught at Wesleyan University, the Associated Kyoto Program, and the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies.

 
Kozue Uzawa and Amelia Fielden
for their translation of tanka poems in Ferris Wheel: 101 Modern and Contemporary Tanka

Professor Uzawa is a tanka poet and a former professor of Japanese language and culture, recently retired from the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. Her first collection of tanka was titled Kanada nite (In Canada). With Amelia Fielden, Professor Uzawa has co-translated As Things Are (100 tanka by Yūko Kawano), as well as the forthcoming Kaleidoscope: Selected Tanka of Terayama Shūji from Hokuseidō Press. Professor Uzawa is also an editor of Gusts, Canada's first English tanka journal.

Ms. Fielden is an Australian translator and poet. Her other published translations include collections of contemporary tanka by Hatsue Kawamura, Kyoko Kuriki, Mariko Kitakubo, Machi Tawara, and Yūko Kawano, for the last of whom she is the official translator. She is currently working with Professor Uzawa on translations from Yukitsuna Sasaki’s latest book, First Snow.