Linda Nancy Andrew was the English-language translator of Japanese author Ryû Murakami's highly-acclaimed novel, Almost Transparent Blue (Kagirinaku tômei ni chikai burû), which won the Akutagawa Prize for Literature in 1976.
Nancy was the only child of Dr. Warren Andrew (1910 - 1982), chair of the Department of Anatomy at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and Nancy Valerie Miellmier Andrew (1914 - 1993), a secretary with the Indiana State Anatomical Board. Born in Dallas when her father was at Baylor University, she also lived in Winston-Salem, NC, when her father was at Wake Forest. Nancy's intense interest in Japanese language and culture was kindled when she traveled to Japan with her parents just before her thirteenth birthday in 1960, a trip described in her father's book, One World of Science. Graduating from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in 1965, she studied East Asian languages three years at Indiana University in Bloomington and during her junior year at Waseda University in Tokyo. 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, Nancy abandoned her academic studies to work as a translator for NHK (Nihon Hôsô Kyôkai), the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Her translation of Murakami's surrealistic novel of post-war life in Japan was published in 1977.
Brilliant, hard-working and creative, Nancy was always interesting. She loved cats.
Nancy was the only child of Dr. Warren Andrew (1910 - 1982), chair of the Department of Anatomy at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and Nancy Valerie Miellmier Andrew (1914 - 1993), a secretary with the Indiana State Anatomical Board. Born in Dallas when her father was at Baylor University, she also lived in Winston-Salem, NC, when her father was at Wake Forest. Nancy's intense interest in Japanese language and culture was kindled when she traveled to Japan with her parents just before her thirteenth birthday in 1960, a trip described in her father's book, One World of Science. Graduating from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in 1965, she studied East Asian languages three years at Indiana University in Bloomington and during her junior year at Waseda University in Tokyo. 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, Nancy abandoned her academic studies to work as a translator for NHK (Nihon Hôsô Kyôkai), the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Her translation of Murakami's surrealistic novel of post-war life in Japan was published in 1977.
Brilliant, hard-working and creative, Nancy was always interesting. She loved cats.
Linda Nancy Andrew was the English-language translator of Japanese author Ryû Murakami's highly-acclaimed novel, Almost Transparent Blue (Kagirinaku tômei ni chikai burû), which won the Akutagawa Prize for Literature in 1976.
Nancy was the only child of Dr. Warren Andrew (1910 - 1982), chair of the Department of Anatomy at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and Nancy Valerie Miellmier Andrew (1914 - 1993), a secretary with the Indiana State Anatomical Board. Born in Dallas when her father was at Baylor University, she also lived in Winston-Salem, NC, when her father was at Wake Forest. Nancy's intense interest in Japanese language and culture was kindled when she traveled to Japan with her parents just before her thirteenth birthday in 1960, a trip described in her father's book, One World of Science. Graduating from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in 1965, she studied East Asian languages three years at Indiana University in Bloomington and during her junior year at Waseda University in Tokyo. 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, Nancy abandoned her academic studies to work as a translator for NHK (Nihon Hôsô Kyôkai), the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Her translation of Murakami's surrealistic novel of post-war life in Japan was published in 1977.
Brilliant, hard-working and creative, Nancy was always interesting. She loved cats.
Nancy was the only child of Dr. Warren Andrew (1910 - 1982), chair of the Department of Anatomy at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and Nancy Valerie Miellmier Andrew (1914 - 1993), a secretary with the Indiana State Anatomical Board. Born in Dallas when her father was at Baylor University, she also lived in Winston-Salem, NC, when her father was at Wake Forest. Nancy's intense interest in Japanese language and culture was kindled when she traveled to Japan with her parents just before her thirteenth birthday in 1960, a trip described in her father's book, One World of Science. Graduating from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in 1965, she studied East Asian languages three years at Indiana University in Bloomington and during her junior year at Waseda University in Tokyo. 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, Nancy abandoned her academic studies to work as a translator for NHK (Nihon Hôsô Kyôkai), the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Her translation of Murakami's surrealistic novel of post-war life in Japan was published in 1977.
Brilliant, hard-working and creative, Nancy was always interesting. She loved cats.
