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The Final Volume in the Series of Masterpieces of Contemporary Australian LiteratureCommemorative Forum for the Publication of ODYSSEY OF THE HORIZON by Alexis Wright“What Do Aboriginal Writers Question in Australian Contemporary Literature?”Guests: Alexis Wright (Writer), Natsuki Ikezawa (Writer)Alexis Wright’s novella, Odyssey of the Horizon, is the last work in the Australian Literature Translation Project by Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers.  In order to celebrate the publication, we are going to hold a book launch forum at the Club Hillside Salon in Shibuya, Tokyo, and also connect the venue online with places in Australia as well as in Japan.  This will be the first publication of Odyssey of the Horizon as an independent volume.Alexis Wright is one of the most renowned contemporary Australian Aboriginal writers, and her work Odyssey of the Horizon is a very sad yet beautiful story which depicts the first encounter of the Aboriginal people with the English colonisers, who appeared before them as “white ghosts”.   Her story does not just tell us about their tragic history in the colonial period in Australia but also reminds us of the contemporary worldwide issues of millions of displaced people, suffering from wars and conflicts.  In contemporary Australian Literature, Aboriginal writers are increasingly playing important roles and Aboriginal issues have been fundamental for Australian literature, particularly those novels selected in our translation project, not only for Aboriginal writers but also for non-Aboriginal writers.  For this forum, we have invited Alexis Wright from Australia (online) and Natsuki Ikezawa from Japan, who published World Literature Collection Natsuki Ikezawa Edition and also wrote a magnificent novel about the Ainu people and settlers in Hokkaido, Shizukana Daichi (A Quiet Land).Natsuki Ikezawa will discuss with Alexis Wright the questions of Aboriginal writers writing in contemporary Australian literature and think over the possibilities of literature in the multicultural, globalising world, where multiple cultures, ethnicities, languages, worldviews and visions of the universe coexist.Date:  Friday, 2 June, 2023 <18:30~20:00 (JST); 19:30~21:00 (AEST)>Venue: Club Hillside Salon in Shibuya, TokyoSeating Capacity: 30 + onlineSimultaneous interpretation (in two languages, Japanese / English) is availableParticipation is free*Organizer: Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers*Assistance: Australia-Japan Foundation*Cooperation: Australia New Zealand Literary Society of Japan, Australian EmbassyProgram- Address by the Australian Embassy- Introduction of Alexis Wright and her work Odyssey of the Horizon by Yasue Arimitsu (Translator of this work and Co-Representative of the Translation Project)- Address and Reading from Odyssey of the Horizon by Alexis Wright- Discussion: Alexis Wright and Natsuki Ikezawa- Remarks by Kate Darian-Smith (Co-Representative of the Translation Project, Executive Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania)- Speech by Fram Kitagawa: President of Gendaikikakushitsu PublishersProfileAlexis Wright is a Waanyi (Aboriginal Australian) writer from the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Australia.  The author of the prize-winning novels, Plains of Promise and Carpentaria as well as The Swan Book, Wright has also published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council; Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory; and Tracker, a collective memoir of Aboriginal leader, Tracker Tilmouth.  She has also written one biography, and several works of prose.  In addition, her work appears in anthologies and journals.  She is also well known as a land rights activist.  When the Northern Territory Intervention proposed by the Howard Government in mid-2002 was introduced, Wright delivered a high-profile 20,000-word speech, sponsored by PEN International.  In 2014, Wright was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and in 2017, she was named the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.  Her books have been published widely overseas, including the US and the UK, and in translation in China, Italy, France and Poland.  She won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007 for Carpentaria and the Stella Prize in 2018 for Tracker.  Her latest novel Praiseworthy was published in April 2023.  Natsuki Ikezawa is a novelist, poet, and translator and a member of the Japan Art Academy. Starting with the Akutagawa Prize in 1987 for Still Life, he has won numerous literary prizes such as the Tanizaki Prize for The Navidad Incident: Downfall of Matias Guili, the Mainichi Shuppan Bunka Prize for A Burden of Flowers, the MEXT Art Prize for The Wonderful New World, and many more.  His work impresses readers with enlightened reflections, themed on relations between nature and humans.  After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, he has constantly visited the disaster area where he got inspiration for his series of essays, Not Hating Spring, as well as for his novel The Double-Headed Ship which is a prayer for the victims of the disaster and for the healing of the survivors.  In his latest novel Atomic Box, he delivered a political thriller about nuclear power.  He has warned of its risk for many years, for example in the series of essays Joyful End of The World published in 1994, which was awarded the Ito Sei Prize.  In 2014 he began publication of the 30 volumes of Japanese Literature Collection Natsuki Ikezawa Edition, following the completion of World Literature Collection Natsuki Ikezawa Edition in 2011.He has been translating English literature and subtitles of Greek films by Theo Angelopoulos and Greek poems by C. P. Cavafy.In his latest novel, God Be with You Till We Meet Again, (novel) he describes the life of his great-uncle, Toshio Akiyoshi, who was a rear admiral, an astronomer, and a Christian, while depicting the modern and contemporary Japanese history from a new perspective.Natsuki Ikezawa looks at the world from its outer edges. To this day, he continues to write on the road through his literary and scientific glasses.

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