Félicitations à Frederik Schodt pour son Prix international Ranald MacDonald:

The Cultural Public Benefit Organization awarding the prize, Friends of MacDonald • The Dutch Connection, abbreviated as FOM NL, would not have existed if Frederik L. Schodt had not written a biography of Ranald MacDonald (1824-1894). In his Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan (Stone Bridge Press, Albany CA, 2003) he brings to life a ‘true cultural and racial hybrid—in the best sense of the word— (who) assumes heroic proportions because of his success in carving his own path in life, in an often unfriendly world’, in short, an example to follow. But, besides this book, Schodt – he calls himself a niche writer – has written many other works on related subjects, essays, historiography and translations. Therefore FOM NL granted him a special prize of 2500 euro for his oeuvre.

C’est l’occasion de rappeler ma propre dette envers Frederik Schodt (que, malheureusement, je n’ai jamais rencontré). Son livre sur le Professeur Risley est fondamental pour mes recherches, et je recommande aussi chaudement son livre

The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924, by Henry Kiyama