Ryukichi Terao

Ryukichi Terao (寺尾 隆吉) (born 1971 in Nagoya) is a Japanese Hispanist and translator.

Work
Terao has published research work:
 * Literaturas al margen (2003)
 * La novelística de la violencia en América Latina (2005)

He is renowned for his translations into Japanese of several Latin American writers:
 * Gabriel García Márquez
 * Rómulo Gallegos
 * Julio Cortázar
 * Juan Carlos Onetti
 * Alejo Carpentier
 * Mario Vargas Llosa

Together with the Venezuelan translators Ednodio Quintero and Gregory Zambrano, he has also translated the work of many notable Japanese writers into Spanish:
 * Kenzaburō Ōe
 * Junichiro Tanizaki
 * Kōbō Abe