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Irena Powell
Irena Powell was born in Lvov (present day Ukraine) in 1941 to Polish-Jewish parents and survived the war in Nazi-occupied Poland. Educated in the post-war communist period, she gr...ver maisIrena Powell was born in Lvov (present day Ukraine) in 1941 to Polish-Jewish parents and survived the war in Nazi-occupied Poland. Educated in the post-war communist period, she graduated from the University of Warsaw with a double degree in Japanese and English studies. She came to St. Antony’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom in 1967, where she completed the Master of Letters (MLitt) postgraduate degree at the Faculty of Oriental Studies. She taught Japanese language and literature at the universities of Oxford and Sheffield, and is the author of a monograph, Writers and Society in Modern Japan, published by Macmillan (1983), as well as a number of academic articles. This is her first non-academic publication. She lives in Oxford with her academic husband and has two grown-up sons.ver menos