Burton Watson
American sinologist, translator, and writer (1925–2017) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Burton Dewitt Watson (June 13, 1925 – April 1, 2017) was an American sinologist, translator, and writer known for his English translations of Chinese and Japanese literature.[1] Watson's translations received many awards, including the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in 1982[2] for his translation with Hiroaki Sato of From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, and again in 1995 for Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o. In 2015, at age 88, Watson was awarded the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation for his long and prolific translation career.[3]
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Born | (1925-06-13)June 13, 1925 New Rochelle, New York, United States | ||||||
Died | April 1, 2017(2017-04-01) (aged 91) Kamagaya, Japan | ||||||
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Education | Columbia University (BA, MA, PhD) | ||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 華茲生 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 华兹生 | ||||||
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