Michael Gallagher (translator)

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 in 1973,^[1] while his nonfiction work Laws of Heaven was the winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award in Theology.^[2] As a Jesuit scholastic, he spent three years teaching English at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he directed several plays, including The Teahouse of the August Moon.^{[citation needed]} He left the Jesuit order^[3] and served briefly as a paratrooper in Korea.

Translations

• Japan Sinks by Sakyo Komatsu
• The Sea and Poison by Shusaku Endo
• Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
• Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
• The Pornographers by Akiyuki Nosaka

Books

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