Translation & Writing

Born in Bangladesh, Sameeha Anwar is a writer and Japanese-English translator based in Japan. She was awarded Second Prize in the 2025 Japanese Literature Publishing Project (JLPP) International Translation Competition for her translation of classical Japanese texts by the haiku poet Kobayashi Issa. Her translation credits include the film Evil Does Not Exist (2024) and the novel Exit 8 (2026). She teaches translation at the Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy in Tokyo.