Miyako Slocombe | Konishi Foundation for International Exchange

Miyako Slocombe's Profile

Graduated from the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco) in 2012.
Thesis was written on the topic of monstrosity in Edogawa Ranpo’s The Demon of the Lonely Isle.
While a student, on receiving the recommendation of the embassy, studied abroad at Waseda University for a year as a Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship student.
After graduating from Inalco, worked as an assistant in the film division of the Paris Japanese Cultural Centre for approximately two years, and after this, worked as a freelance translator/interpreter.
In 2015, entered the School of Literary Translation (ETL) established by the French National Book Center (CNL), graduating in 2016.
Translator/interpreter in the fields of literature, manga, film, and theatre.

Major translations and achievements

2014　Masahiko Shimada, Daughter of Chaos
2015　Edogawa Ranpo, The Demon of the Lonely Isle
2017　Yasutaka Tsutsui, Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

Translated over 80 volumes, including manga based on the works of Edogawa Ranpo (Suehiro Maruo’s The Caterpillar, The Strange Tale of Panorama Island, and The Dancing Dwarf). (Publications from Le Lezard Noir, Kana (Dargaud Group), Akata, and Casterman.)

2013 Hey Raven, We Load the Bullets (playwright: Shimizu Kunio, direction: Yukio Ninagawa)
2014 Macbeth (playwright: Shakespeare (translation by Shoichiro Kawai), direction: Mansai Nomura)
2015 Kurozuka (Kinoshita Kabuki)
2016 Jikokudani Onsen - An Unknown Inn (playwright, direction: Kuro Tanino)

Responsible for the subtitles of about 50 films (mainly Paris Japanese Cultural Centre and Cinematheque Francaise)

Interpretation for lectures on Japanese culture: Noh, Kudo, traditional crafts, etc.
In Paris, responsible for interpretation for authors (Dorian Sukegawa), manga artists (Suehiro Maruo, Minetaro Mochizuki, etc), actors and film directors (Tatsuya Nakadai, Naomi Kawase, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sion Sono, etc).