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Matias Chiappe Ippolito

Matias Chiappe Ippolito

Matias Chiappe Ippolito (b.1984) is Research Professor of Japanese Literature at the Center for Asian and African Studies (CEAA) at El Colegio de México. He was also a Lecturer and Researcher at the Faculty of Letters of Waseda University in Tokyo, where he completed his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the relationship between Japanese and Latin American literature.

He has translated several Japanese authors into Spanish, including Hōjō Tamio (La primera noche de la vida, Editorial También el Caracol, 2024), 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).

He holds a Master’s in Japanese Studies from El Colegio de México and an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Buenos Aires.

For more information, please see
https://ceaa.colmex.mx/personal-academico/chiappe-ippolito-matias-ariel/semblanza