Donald Keene (1922–2019)
Autor von Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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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, mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1955) — Herausgeber — 732 Exemplare
Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century (1965) — Herausgeber — 273 Exemplare
Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (1993) 92 Exemplare
Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed Through Their Diaries (1995) 69 Exemplare
On Familiar Terms: To Japan and Back, a Lifetime Across Cultures (Kodansha Globe) (1994) 32 Exemplare
The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) (2016) 9 Exemplare
Edo Japan encounters the world : conversations between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro (2018) 3 Exemplare
Living in Two Countries (Kodansha Bilingual Books) (English and Japanese Edition) (1999) 3 Exemplare
Travels in Japan 2 Exemplare
Confessions of a Japanologist 2 Exemplare
Friends 1 Exemplar
The Distinctiveness of the Japanese 1 Exemplar
Japanese View in diary - Kakaku of 100's (1984) ISBN: 4022552778 [Japanese Import] (1984) 1 Exemplar
Modern Japanese Novels and the West. 1 Exemplar
30 Things Japanese 1 Exemplar
Japan and Japanese culture (Chukoshinsho (285)) (1972) ISBN: 4121002857 [Japanese Import] (1972) — Autor — 1 Exemplar
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Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play (1748) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 261 Exemplare
Die Geschichte vom Bambussammler und dem Mädchen Kaguya. Taketori Monogatari, eine alte japanische Erzählung. (0010) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 213 Exemplare
Kyoto: Compiled by the City of Kyoto — Übersetzer — 2 Exemplare
The Battles of Coxinga: Chikamatsu's Puppet Play, Its Background and Importance (Cambridge Oriental Series, No. 4) (1951) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 2 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Keene, Donald
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Keene, Donald Lawrence
- Andere Namen
- 鬼怒鳴門
キーン, ドナルド - Geburtstag
- 1922-06-06
- Todestag
- 2019-02-24
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- VS
- Geburtsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Sterbeort
- Tokyo, Japan
- Todesursache
- cardiac arrest
- Wohnorte
- New York, New York, USA
Tokyo, Japan - Ausbildung
- Columbia University (BA-'42 ∙ MA-'47 ∙ PhD-'49)
U.S. Navy Japanese Language School
Harvard University
Kyoto University
University of Cambridge (MA ∙ LittD) - Berufe
- intelligence officer
translator
editor
scholar
teacher
writer (Zeige alle 7)
historian - Organisationen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1986)
United States Navy (WWII)
Columbia University - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- 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) (Zeige alle 9)
Ango Award (2010)
Asahi Prize (1997)
Yomiuri Literary Prize (1985)
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Donald Keene has retired. in Japanese Culture (Mai 2011)
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