Donald Keene
American Japanese academic (1922–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.[1][2] Keene was University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kīn Donarudo (キーン ドナルド, "Donald Keene" in the Japanese name order).[3] This was also his poetic pen name (雅号, gagō) and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form 鬼怒鳴門.[4][lower-alpha 1]
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Born | Donald Lawrence Keene (1922-06-18)June 18, 1922 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | February 24, 2019(2019-02-24) (aged 96) Tokyo, Japan |
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Occupation(s) | Scholar, historian, professor, writer and linguist |
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