Donald Keene (1922–2019)
Auteur de Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
A propos de l'auteur
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, afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Donald Keene
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1955) — Directeur de publication — 732 exemplaires
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day (1956) — Directeur de publication — 288 exemplaires
Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century (1965) — Directeur de publication — 273 exemplaires
Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (1993) 92 exemplaires
Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed Through Their Diaries (1995) 69 exemplaires
On Familiar Terms: To Japan and Back, a Lifetime Across Cultures (Kodansha Globe) (1994) 32 exemplaires
The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) (2016) 9 exemplaires
Edo Japan encounters the world : conversations between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro (2018) 3 exemplaires
Travels in Japan 2 exemplaires
A Neglected Chapter. Courtly Fiction of the Kamakura Period Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 44, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp. 1-30 2 exemplaires
Confessions of a Japanologist 2 exemplaires
Japanese View in diary - Kakaku of 100's (1984) ISBN: 4022552778 [Japanese Import] (1984) 1 exemplaire
Friends 1 exemplaire
30 Things Japanese 1 exemplaire
Modern Japanese Novels and the West. 1 exemplaire
La literatura japonesa entre Oriente y Occidente 1 exemplaire
The Distinctiveness of the Japanese 1 exemplaire
Japan and Japanese culture (Chukoshinsho (285)) (1972) ISBN: 4121002857 [Japanese Import] (1972) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Les heures oisives, Suivi de Notes de ma cabane de moine par Kamono Chōmei (1330) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 547 exemplaires
Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play (1748) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 261 exemplaires
Kyoto: Compiled by the City of Kyoto — Traducteur — 2 exemplaires
The Battles of Coxinga: Chikamatsu's Puppet Play, Its Background and Importance (Cambridge Oriental Series, No. 4) (1951) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Keene, Donald
- Nom légal
- Keene, Donald Lawrence
- Autres noms
- 鬼怒鳴門
キーン, ドナルド - Date de naissance
- 1922-06-06
- Date de décès
- 2019-02-24
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- VS
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Tokyo, Japan
- Cause du décès
- cardiac arrest
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Tokyo, Japan - Études
- 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 (tout afficher 7)
historian - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1986)
United States Navy (WWII)
Columbia University - Prix et distinctions
- 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) (tout afficher 9)
Ango Award (2010)
Asahi Prize (1997)
Yomiuri Literary Prize (1985)
Membres
Discussions
Donald Keene has retired. à Japanese Culture (Mai 2011)
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 69
- Aussi par
- 20
- Membres
- 3,762
- Popularité
- #6,735
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 22
- ISBN
- 140
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 2