Burton Watson
American sinologist, translator, and writer (1925–2017)
Burton DeWitt Watson (June 13, 1925 – April 1, 2017) was an American scholar and translator[1] of both Chinese and Japanese literature. He was born in New Rochelle, New York.
Watson received 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. He also received the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation in 2015.[3]
Watson died on April 1, 2017 in Kamagaya, Japan, aged 91.[4]
References change
- ↑ Stirling 2006, pg. 92
- ↑ "Ahadada Books-Burton Watson". Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ↑ "Burton Watson Named Winner of 2015 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation". PEN/America. April 24, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
- ↑ Greenblatt, Lily (6 April 2017). "Burton Watson, scholar and translator of classical Asian literature, has died". Lion's Roar. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
This short article about a person from the United States can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.