Michael Gallagher (translator)

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Michael Gallagher (born 1930) is an author and translator of Japanese literature. His translation of Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow was a finalist for the National Book Award while his nonfiction work Laws of Heaven was the winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award in Theology. He served briefly as a paratrooper in Korea and is a former Jesuit.

[edit] Translations

• The Sea and Poison by Shusaku Endo
• Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
• Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
• The Pornographers by Nozaka Akiyuki

[edit] Books

• Dust and Gingko Leaves (published in Japanese translation by Kodansha)
• Laws of Heaven (1992)