Ryukichi Terao (寺尾 隆吉; born 1971) 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

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