Yoko Tawada (????? Tawada Yoko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany.
She writes in both Japanese and German.
Tawada has won numerous literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature, the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Goethe Medal, the Kleist Prize, and a National Book Award.