Tatyana Rosanova, born in Tokyo in 1949, graduated from the University of International Relations in 1971 and enrolled in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy to receive an MA. After working as a lecturer for the Japanese Language Course at the University of International Relations from 1973 to 1997, she is now an assistant professor at the Moscow State Linguistics University. Her translated works are Kochiya and Letter by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Shishusuru onnanoko by Yoko Ogawa and Shinjuku by Yan Sogiru.