1925 - 2017
Burton Watson American Educator
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Details
| First Name |
Burton
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| Last Name |
Watson
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1924
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| Birthplace |
New York City
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| Died |
1st April, 2017
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| Place of Death |
Kamagaya, Japan
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Translator
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| Occupation |
Educator
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Burton Dewitt Watson (June 13, 1925 – April 1, 2017) was an American scholar and translator known for his English translations of Chinese and Japanese literature.
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 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.
