Upon the announcement of Alice Munro receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, Yukiko Toda, a professor visiting UBC from Japan, was asked to comment on the significance of Munro and Canadian literature in Japan to Japanese media.
Toda is a member of The Canadian Literary Society of Japan, a team of Japanese scholars who are translating The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2009), a history co–edited by UBC English professor Eva-Marie Kroller. Toda is translating the chapters on Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields and Mavis Gallant.
The Canadian Literary Society of Japan is the only association dedicated to the study of Canadian literature in Japan. For more information, visit their website.
