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Nancy Andrew

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Linda Nancy Andrew (August 17, 1947 November 29,

1998) was the English-language translator of Japanese author
Ry Murakami's highly acclaimed novel, Almost Transparent
Blue, which had won the Akutagawa Prize in 1976.
Born in Dallas, Texas, Andrew was the only child of Dr.
Warren Andrew (19101982), who later chaired the
Department of Anatomy at the Indiana University School of
Medicine in Indianapolis, and Nancy Valerie Miellmier
Andrew (19141993), later a secretary with the Indiana State
Anatomical Board.

Her interest in Japanese language and culture was kindled

when she traveled to Japan with her parents just before her
thirteenth birthday in 1960. Graduating from Shortridge High
School in Indianapolis in 1965, she studied East Asian
languages at Indiana University in Bloomington and Waseda
University in Tokyo.

Nancy Andrew

Born

August 17, 1947

Died

November 29, 1998 (aged 51)

Dallas, Texas
Tokyo

Alma mater Indiana University Bloomington

Waseda University

Harvard Yenching Institute

Occupation Japanese-English translator

Known for English translation of Ry
Murakami's novel, Almost
Transparent Blue

After receiving an honors degree from Indiana in 1969, she began graduate study at the Harvard Yenching
Institute, where her faculty adviser was Edwin O. Reischauer, former United States Ambassador to Japan, and
where she was an editor of Stone Lion Review, published by the East Asian Graduate Students Colloquium.
While doing research for her doctoral dissertation on the feminist movement in Japan, Andrew abandoned her
academic studies to work as a translator for NHK, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Her translation of
Murakami's surrealistic novel of post-war life in Japan was published in 1977.

References

Andrew, Warren, One World of Science: Personal Visits to Men of Research in Many Lands, Springfield,
IL: Charles C. Thomas (1966), Chapter 13.

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