Donald Keene (1922–2019)
Autor de Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Sobre El 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, mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Donald Keene
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1955) — Editor — 727 copias
Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century (1965) — Editor — 272 copias
Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (1993) 91 copias
Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed Through Their Diaries (1995) 69 copias
The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) (2016) 8 copias
Edo Japan encounters the world : conversations between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro (2018) 3 copias
Confessions of a Japanologist 2 copias
Travels in Japan 2 copias
Friends 1 copia
30 Things Japanese 1 copia
Japan and Japanese culture (Chukoshinsho (285)) (1972) ISBN: 4121002857 [Japanese Import] (1972) — Autor — 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play (1748) — Traductor, algunas ediciones — 260 copias
Kyoto: Compiled by the City of Kyoto — Traductor — 2 copias
The Battles of Coxinga: Chikamatsu's Puppet Play, Its Background and Importance (Cambridge Oriental Series, No. 4) (1951) — Traductor, algunas ediciones — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Keene, Donald
- Nombre legal
- Keene, Donald Lawrence
- Otros nombres
- 鬼怒鳴門
キーン, ドナルド - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1922-06-06
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2019-02-24
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- VS
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Tokyo, Japan
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cardiac arrest
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
Tokyo, Japan - Educación
- Columbia University (BA-'42 ∙ MA-'47 ∙ PhD-'49)
U.S. Navy Japanese Language School
Harvard University
Kyoto University
University of Cambridge (MA ∙ LittD) - Ocupaciones
- intelligence officer
translator
editor
scholar
teacher
writer (mostrar todos 7)
historian - Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1986)
United States Navy (WWII)
Columbia University - Premios y honores
- 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) (mostrar todos 9)
Ango Award (2010)
Asahi Prize (1997)
Yomiuri Literary Prize (1985)
Miembros
Debates
Donald Keene has retired. en Japanese Culture (mayo 2011)
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- Obras
- 68
- También por
- 17
- Miembros
- 3,736
- Popularidad
- #6,781
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 21
- ISBNs
- 140
- Idiomas
- 4
- Favorito
- 2
Cada capítulo propone además brillantes reflexiones que nos iluminan sobre aquellos elementos culturales que, herederos de una tradición milenaria, se han conservado casi intactos hasta nuestros días. Así, descubriremos por ejemplo que la reducida extensión de sus poemas era originalmente casi una necesidad, por qué en el kabuki los actores representan también los personajes femeninos, la razón por la que los más exquisitos templos están construidos en madera, la preferencia por la cerámica imperfecta o el desbordante entusiasmo de todo un pueblo por la efímera y delicada flor del cerezo.… (más)