# Ted Goossen > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ted_Goossen > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ted_Goossen.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Goossen > Source revision: 1336343306 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Theodore W. Goossen**[1] is a professor emeritus of contemporary Japanese literature at [York University](/source/York_University) in Toronto, Canada.[2] He is known for translating the works of a number of Japanese authors into English, most notably [Haruki Murakami](/source/Haruki_Murakami).[2][3] Other authors he has translated include [Shiga Naoya](/source/Naoya_Shiga) and [Ibuse Masuji](/source/Masuji_Ibuse).[2] Goossen is also the co-editor of the translation journal *Monkey Business International: New Writing from Japan.*[4] ## Early life and career When he was nineteen, Goossen went to Japan for his third year of college, where he lived with [homestay](/source/Homestay) family and learned the [Japanese language](/source/Japanese_language). There, he witnessed the [1968–1969 Japanese university protests](/source/1968%E2%80%931969_Japanese_university_protests).[4] Later, Goossen completed a [PhD](/source/PhD) at the [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto) and a post-doctoral fellowship from the Canadian government. He encountered the works of [Haruki Murakami](/source/Haruki_Murakami) during his doctoral studies after a friend introduced *[A Wild Sheep Chase](/source/A_Wild_Sheep_Chase)* to him. Goossen and Murakami then met in Toronto, after which Murakami contacted him to translate his short pieces. Goossen's first novel translations for Murakami were *[Hear the Wind Sing](/source/Hear_the_Wind_Sing)* and *[Pinball, 1973](/source/Pinball,_1973)*.[4] In 1992, a year after Murakami's writing fellowship at [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) began, scholar Hosea Hirata organized a panel on Murakami's books at the annual Association of Asian Studies conference which, according to organizers, was "packed." Goossen, as well as frequent Murakami translator [Jay Rubin](/source/Jay_Rubin), was in attendance. According to translator David Karashima, Goossen claimed that the panel was a "turning point in terms of Murakami's position within Japanese literary studies in the U.S."[5] While working at the [University of Tokyo](/source/University_of_Tokyo), Goossen met Motoyuki Shibata, a frequent collaborator of Murakami's. Together, they co-edit *Monkey Business International: New Writing from Japan*, a journal of [Japanese literature](/source/Japanese_literature) translated into [English](/source/English_language), with several pieces taken from the original *Monkey Business*, Shibata's Japanese-language quarterly.[6] The international edition has featured several pieces by Haruki Murakami, as well as the first excerpts of [Hiromi Kawakami](/source/Hiromi_Kawakami)'s *[People From My Neighborhood](/source/People_From_My_Neighborhood)*.[4] ## Bibliography ### Books - *[The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories](/source/The_Oxford_Book_of_Japanese_Short_Stories)*[1] ### Translations - *Dragon Palace*, Hiromi Kawakami - *[Hear the Wind Sing](/source/Hear_the_Wind_Sing)*, Haruki Murakami - *[Killing Commendatore](/source/Killing_Commendatore)*, Haruki Murakami[7] - [*Men Without Women*](/source/Men_Without_Women_(Murakami_short_story_collection)), Haruki Murakami, co-translated with [Philip Gabriel](/source/Philip_Gabriel) - *[People From My Neighborhood](/source/People_From_My_Neighborhood)*, Hiromi Kawakami[8] - *[Pinball, 1973](/source/Pinball,_1973)*, Haruki Murakami - *Reconciliation*, Shiga Naoya - *Strange Weather in Tokyo*, Hiromi Kawakami - *[The Strange Library](/source/The_Strange_Library)*, Haruki Murakami - *The Third Love*, Hiromi Kawakami[9] - "The Kitchen God" and its accompanying interview "Hiromi Kawakami on Communalism in Japan" for *[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)*, Hiromi Kawakami[10] ## References 1. ["The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories"](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-book-of-japanese-short-stories-9780199583195). *global.oup.com*. [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press). Retrieved 2025-08-26. - The book's editor is "Theodore W. Goossen", [and it is in Ted Goosen's CV](https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/tgoossen/), so "Theodore W. Goossen" is an expanded form of Ted Goosen's name. 1. ["tgoossen | Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies"](https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/tgoossen/). *profiles.laps.yorku.ca*. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2024-10-26. 1. ["The joys and challenges of translating Haruki Murakami's work"](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/monday-june-5-2017-jason-poo-bear-boyd-perfume-genius-and-more-1.4143013/the-joys-and-challenges-of-translating-haruki-murakami-s-work-1.4143070). *CBC Radio*. 2017-06-05. 1. ["Translating Haruki Murakami: Ted Goossen Interview | InsideJapan Blog"](https://www.insidejapantours.com/blog/2018/09/28/translating-haruki-murakami/). *www.insidejapantours.com*. 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2024-10-26. 1. Karashima, David (September 1, 2020). *Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami*. [Soft Skull](/source/Soft_Skull). p. 97. ISBN 978-1593765897. 1. Kelts, Roland (2013-05-09). ["Lost in Translation?"](https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lost-in-translation). *The New Yorker*. [ISSN 0028-792X](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0028-792X). Retrieved 2024-10-27. 1. ["Translating Haruki Murakami: Ted Goossen Interview | InsideJapan Blog"](https://www.insidejapantours.com/blog/2018/09/28/translating-haruki-murakami/). *www.insidejapantours.com*. 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2024-10-27. 1. ["Living in a Storied Neighborhood: A conversation with Ted Goossen about his translation of Hiromi Kawakami's People from My Neighborhood"](https://www.waseda.jp/inst/wihl-annex/interviews-en/625). *The Waseda International House of Literature Virtual Annex*. Retrieved 2024-10-27. 1. Kosaka, Kris (September 6, 2024). ["'The Third Love' is a time-bending meditation on romantic love"](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/09/06/books/hiromi-kawakami-the-third-love/). *[The Japan Times](/source/The_Japan_Times)* 1. Kawakami, Hiromi (2023-07-03). [""The Kitchen God," by Hiromi Kawakami"](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/the-kitchen-god-fiction-hiromi-kawakami). *The New Yorker*. [ISSN 0028-792X](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0028-792X). Retrieved 2024-10-27. ## External links - [Ted Goosen](https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/tgoossen/) - [York University](/source/York_University) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ted Goossen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Goossen) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Goossen?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.