Winning Work

Gargantua, Pantagruel

Mr. Shiro Miyashita, possessing both deep reverence for Kazuo Watanabe’s translation of “The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel” and an awareness of the work’s status as a classic, nonetheless wanted to create a new translation that appealed to a wider audience while still maintaining the integrity of the original work. Opting for a light and charmingly fresh approach to the material, he developed a wholly new translation of Rabelais, a work that has been roundly received as a groundbreaking achievement.