Ryukichi Terao

Ryukichi Terao (寺尾 隆吉) (born 1971 in Nagoya) is a Japanese Hispanist and translator.

Work

Terao has published research work:

• Literaturas al margen (2003)
• La novelística de la violencia en América Latina (2005)

He is renowned for his translations into Japanese of several Latin American writers:

• Gabriel García Márquez
• Rómulo Gallegos
• Julio Cortázar
• Juan Carlos Onetti
• Alejo Carpentier
• Mario Vargas Llosa

Together with the Venezuelan translators Ednodio Quintero and Gregory Zambrano, he has also translated the work of many notable Japanese writers into Spanish:

• Kenzaburō Ōe
• Junichiro Tanizaki
• Kōbō Abe

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