Yuko Taniguchi Explained

Yuko Taniguchi
Birth Place:	Yokohama, Japan
Nationality:	Japanese American
Education:	College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University University of Minnesota (MFA)

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

• Book: Foreign Wife Elegy. Coffee House Press . 2004. registration. Yuko Taniguchi.. 978-1-56689-148-6 .

Novels

• Book: The Ocean in the Closet. Coffee House Press. 2007. 978-1-56689-194-3 .

External links

• "Author's website"
• "University of Minnesota, Rochester Faculty page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Yuko Taniguchi, M.F.A. : Faculty & Staff : Center for Learning Innovation (CLI) : Research : University of Minnesota | Rochester . October 20, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100609204646/http://www.r.umn.edu/research/cli/people/yuko-taniguchi/index.htm . June 9, 2010 .
2. Web site: CSB Alumnae & Friends – CSB/SJU . www.csbsju.edu . 22 May 2022 . https://archive.today/20120730235449/http://www.csbsju.edu/csbalum/news/2008/08/Yuko_taniguchi.htm . 30 July 2012 . dead.
3. Web site: The Ocean in the Closet is a 2007 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist . . 30 October 2018 . en.