Donald Keene

Donald Keene
Junior Third Rank
Donald Keene Junior Third Rank
キーンドナルド
	Keene in his Tokyo home in 2002
Born	Donald Lawrence Keene; June 18, 1922; New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	February 24, 2019 (aged 96); Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	United States (1922–2012); Japan, naturalized (2012–2019);
Education	Columbia University (BA) (MA) (PhD); Harvard; Cambridge University (MA);
Occupation(s)	Scholar, historian, professor, writer and linguist
Organizations	Cambridge University (1949–1954); Columbia University (since 1955);
Known for	"History of Japanese Literature" series (1976–); "Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912" (2002);
Awards	Kikuchi Kan Prize (1962); Yamagata Banto Prize (1983); Yomiuri Prize (1985); Japanese Literature Award (1985); Fukuoka Prize (1991); 2nd Class, Order of the Rising Sun (1993); Asahi Prize (1998); Mainichi Publication Culture Award (2002); Order of Culture (2008); Junior Third Rank (2019);

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]^[a]

^ Shavit, David (1990). The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313267888.
^ "Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene dies at 96". The Japan Times. Tokyo. February 24, 2019. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
^ Fackler, Martin (November 2, 2012). "Lifelong Scholar of the Japanese Becomes One of Them". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014.
^ "年譜 | プロフィール | ドナルド・キーンについて | ドナルド・キーン・センター柏崎". www.donaldkeenecenter.jp. Retrieved February 5, 2021.

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[1] Shavit, David (1990). The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313267888.

[2] "Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene dies at 96". The Japan Times. Tokyo. February 24, 2019. Retrieved February 24, 2019.

[NewYorkTimes-3] Fackler, Martin (November 2, 2012). "Lifelong Scholar of the Japanese Becomes One of Them". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014.

[4] "年譜 | プロフィール | ドナルド・キーンについて | ドナルド・キーン・センター柏崎". www.donaldkeenecenter.jp. Retrieved February 5, 2021.

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