Anna Zielinska-Elliot
Senior Lecturer in Japanese Head of Japanese Language Program
- Title Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Head of Japanese Language Program - Office STH 635A
- Email aelliott@bu.edu
- Phone 617-358-6898
- Education MA, University of Warsaw (Poland)
MA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan)
PhD, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Anna Zielinska-Elliott is a translator of modern Japanese literature into Polish. Best known for her translations of Murakami Haruki, she has also translated Mishima Yukio and Yoshimoto Banana. She is the author of a Polish-language monograph on gender in Murakami’s writing [“Haruki Murakami and the Actors in His Theater of Imagination,” 2015], a literary guidebook to Murakami’s Tokyo, and several articles on Murakami and European translation practices relating to contemporary Japanese fiction.