Donald Keene (1922–2019)
Autor/a de Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Sobre l'autor
Donald Keene was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 18, 1922. He was a child prodigy and entered Columbia University on scholarship in 1938 at the age of 16. He received a bachelor's degree in 1942, a master's degree in 1947, and a doctoral degree in 1951 from Columbia. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, mostra'n més he enlisted in the Navy and volunteered to study Japanese. His first experience as a translator came in Hawaii, where he worked on routine military reports captured from Japanese units in the Pacific theater. He then became a wartime interrogator after the battle in Okinawa on April 1, 1945. After he was discharged, he taught at Columbia University for 56 years. Over his career, he translated many of the most important works of Japanese literature into English. He also wrote numerous books in both English and Japanese including Dawn to the West and Travelers of the Ages. In 1985, he became the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature for literary criticism. He became a Japanese citizen in 2012. He died on February 24, 2019 at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Sèrie
Obres de Donald Keene
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1955) — Editor — 727 exemplars
Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century (1965) — Editor — 272 exemplars
Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (1993) 91 exemplars
Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed Through Their Diaries (1995) 69 exemplars
On Familiar Terms: To Japan and Back, a Lifetime Across Cultures (Kodansha Globe) (1994) 32 exemplars
The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) (2016) 8 exemplars
Edo Japan encounters the world : conversations between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro (2018) 3 exemplars
Living in Two Countries (Kodansha Bilingual Books) (English and Japanese Edition) (1999) 3 exemplars
Confessions of a Japanologist 2 exemplars
Travels in Japan 2 exemplars
Japanese View in diary - Kakaku of 100's (1984) ISBN: 4022552778 [Japanese Import] (1984) 1 exemplars
Essays in idleness : the Tsurezuregusa of Kenk? 1 exemplars
Friends 1 exemplars
30 Things Japanese 1 exemplars
La literatura japonesa entre Oriente y Occidente 1 exemplars
The Distinctiveness of the Japanese 1 exemplars
Japan and Japanese culture (Chukoshinsho (285)) (1972) ISBN: 4121002857 [Japanese Import] (1972) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play (1748) — Traductor, algunes edicions — 260 exemplars
Kyoto: Compiled by the City of Kyoto — Traductor — 2 exemplars
The Battles of Coxinga: Chikamatsu's Puppet Play, Its Background and Importance (Cambridge Oriental Series, No. 4) (1951) — Traductor, algunes edicions — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Keene, Donald
- Nom oficial
- Keene, Donald Lawrence
- Altres noms
- 鬼怒鳴門
キーン, ドナルド - Data de naixement
- 1922-06-06
- Data de defunció
- 2019-02-24
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- VS
- Lloc de naixement
- New York, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Tokyo, Japan
- Causa de la mort
- cardiac arrest
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
Tokyo, Japan - Educació
- Columbia University (BA-'42 ∙ MA-'47 ∙ PhD-'49)
U.S. Navy Japanese Language School
Harvard University
Kyoto University
University of Cambridge (MA ∙ LittD) - Professions
- intelligence officer
translator
editor
scholar
teacher
writer (mostra-les totes 7)
historian - Organitzacions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1986)
United States Navy (WWII)
Columbia University - Premis i honors
- Kikuchi Kan Prize (1962)
The Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class (Japanese Government ∙ 1993)
PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation (2003)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1982)
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, Third Class (1975)
Order of Culture (2008) (mostra-les totes 9)
Ango Award (2010)
Asahi Prize (1997)
Yomiuri Literary Prize (1985)
Membres
Converses
Donald Keene has retired. a Japanese Culture (maig 2011)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 68
- També de
- 17
- Membres
- 3,736
- Popularitat
- #6,781
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 21
- ISBN
- 140
- Llengües
- 4
- Preferit
- 2