Keijiro Suga is a Tokyo-based poet and critic. Professor of critical theory at the Meiji University, where he founded the graduate program in Places, Arts, and Consciousness. He shares with us his translation into Japanese of Lispector's story "É pra lá que eu vou". He is the author of "Transversal Journeys", awarded with the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in Japan, in 2011. He has also published five collections of poetry, "Numbers and Twilight" (2017) being the latest. He is also a prolific translator. Among his more than thirty translations are: Poétique de la Relation by Edouard Glissant, La vie scélérate by Maryse Condé, La fête chantée and Raga by J.M.G. Le Clézio, Le postmoderne expliqué aux enfants by Jean-François Lyotard, At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid, Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender, El árbol del conocimiento by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, Paula by Isabel Allende.
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