Asa Yoneda

Asa Yoneda is a Japanese translator, her work includes translations from Japanese of women and men from the contemporary to the early 20th century, and has been nominated for the PEN Translation Prize and the Otherwise Prize, among others. She teaches literary translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Born in Osaka, she has lived in Tokyo, Southern California, and the south of England, most recently Bristol. She teaches literary translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and serves as a judge for the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize for Japanese Literature.

Her English language translation of Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami is shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.