Geraldine Harcourt


Geraldine Millais Harcourt was a New Zealand translator of modern Japanese literature.
Harcourt was born in Auckland on 25 May 1952. She graduated from the University of Auckland, and first went to Japan in 1973. Harcourt developed a close working relationship with Japanese fiction writer Yūko Tsushima, and translated many of her works into English. These include:
Works by other Japanese authors translated into English by Harcourt include:
In 1990, Harcourt was awarded the Wheatland Translation Prize. She won the 2018–2019 Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for her translation of Territory of Light, published by Penguin in 2017.
Harcourt died in Wellington on 21 June 2019.