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Translating Finnegans Wake into Japanese

- Family friendly
- Free to visit
Tuesday, 5 May 2026
About this event
Join us on Tuesday, 5th May at 6:30pm when translator and Finnegans Web co-founder Kenji Hayakawa will present a detailed and beginner-friendly overview of his ongoing translation of Finnegans Wake into Japanese. This talk will focus on Book I, Chapter 2 and will likely reveal a number of surprising facts about the Wake as well as the Japanese language!
Kenji Hayakawa is a translator and interpreter based in Dublin, Ireland. Working with the English-Japanese pair, he has translated a wide range of material including books by Yoko Tawada, Noam Chomsky, Dipesh Chakrabarty and others. He is the founder and host of Reading Finnegans Wake, a Japanese-language weekly livestream programme.
Free event, booking essential.
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