CHIAPPE IPPOLITO, MATIAS ARIEL

Matias Chiappe Ippolito (b. 1984) is a professor and researcher of Japanese literature at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México. He was also a researcher at the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he completed his doctorate with a thesis on the relationship between Japanese and Latin American literature. He taught literary translation and Japanese literature in translation at that university and others in Japan. He holds a Master's degree in Asian and African Studies with a specialization in Japan from El Colegio de México and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Buenos Aires, where he earned a degree in literature and became a professor. He has translated Ango Sakaguchi (Ango Sakaguchi, Farsas y ensayos, Editorial Evaristo, 2023), Osamu Dazai (Flores de la bufonería, Editorial También el Caracol, 2023), and Hagiwara Sakutarō (Gato azul, Editorial Noctámbula, 2021), among others. He is also the editor of the bilingual English-Japanese magazine Tokyo Poetry Journal, published in Japan.