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Frederik Schodt is a pioneering manga scholar and translator, and the winner of the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus Tom Spurgeon Award for 2022. Schodt’s 1983 book Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics was the first significant book to introduce English speakers to Japanese comics, and his translations into English of such works as Astro Boy by Tezuka, Ghost in the Shell by Shirow and The Rose of Versailles by Ikeda have garnered numerous international awards while sparking a love of manga across North America. Hear from Schodt about his life and career, in conversation with The Ohio State University Libraries Japanese Studies Librarian, Ann Marie Davis.
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Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, United States