Donald Lawrence Keene () a fost un niponolog, scriitor, traducător și fost profesor universitar originar din SUA.

A fost profesor emerit la Universitatea Columbia, unde a predat peste 50 de ani.

În 2011 s-a mutat permanent la Tokio, iar în martie 2012 i s-a acordat cetățenia japoneză. În kanji își scrie numele 鬼怒鳴門.

Biografie Keene a obținut diploma de licență la Universitatea Columbia în 1942. Apoi a studiat limba japoneză la Școala de limbă japoneză a Marinei militare americane la Boulder, Colorado, fiind apoi ofițer de informații în regiunea Pacificului în timpul celui de al Doilea Război Mondial. După terminarea războiului s-a reîntors la studii la Universitatea Columbia, unde și-a luat masteratul.

După ce a studiat un an la Universitatea Harvard, s-a transferat la Universitatea Cambridge din Marea Britanie, unde și-a luat un al doilea masterat. A predat la Universitatea Cambridge între 1949-1955. Între timp a avut o bursă la Universitatea Kyoto și și-a luat doctoratul la Universitatea Columbia în 1951.

Doctorate onorifice Keene a primit nouă doctorate honoris causa de la: UniversitateaToyo, Tokio, 2011 Universitatea Kyorin, Tokio, 2007 Universitatea Kyoto Sangyo (Kyoto, 2002) Keiwa Gakuen College (Prefectura Niigata), 2000) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Tokyo, 1999) Universitatea Waseda (Tokyo, 1998) Universitatea Tohoku (Sendai, 1997) Universitatea Columbia (New York, 1997) Middlebury College (Vermont, 1995) St. Andrews Presbyterian College (North Carolina, 1990) Universitatea Cambridge (1978)

Premii și distincții (selecție) Premiul Kikuchi Kan (Kikuchi Kan Shō Society for the Advancement of Japanese Culture), 1962. "Professor Gets Prize; Keene of Columbia Cited for Work in Japanese Letters," New York Times. 5 martie 1962. Premiul Ameringen Distinguished Book Award, 1967 Kokusai Shuppan Bunka Shō Taishō, 1969 Kokusai Shuppan Bunka Shō, 1971 Ordinul răsărit de soare, Stea de aur și argint, 1975. Yamagata Banto Prize („Yamagata Bantō Shō”), 1983 Premiul The Japan Foundation Award („Kokusai Kōryū Kikin Shō”), 1983 Premiul Literar Yomiuri (Yomiuri Bungaku Shō), 1985 (Keene a fost primul străin care a primt acest premiu, pentru cartea de critică literară Travellers of a Hundred Ages scrisă în japoneză) Award for Excellence (Graduate Faculties Alumni of Columbia University), 1985 Nihon Bungaku Taishō, 1985 Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture la Universitatea Columbia University numit în cinstea lui, 1986 Tōkyō-to Bunka Shō, 1987 NBCC (The National Book Critics Circle) Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing, 1990 Premiul Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize („Fukuoka Ajia Bunka Shō”), 1991 Premiul Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) Hōsō Bunka Shō, 1993 The Ordinul răsărit de soare, Clasa a II-a, 1993 Premiul Inoue Yasushi Bunka Shō („Inoue Yasushi Kinen Bunka Zaidan”), 1995 The Distinguished Achievement Award (din partea The Tokyo American Club) #65288, 1995 Premiul de Onoare (din partea The Japan Society of Northern California), 1996 Premiul Asahi Award, 1997 Persoană de Merit Cultural (Bunka Kōrōsha) (Guvernul japonez), 2002 (Keene este al treilea străin care a primit această distincție) Premiul Mainichi Shuppan Bunka Shō (The Mainichi Newspapers), 2002 Medalia PEN/Ralph Manheim pentru traduceri, 2003 Ordinul Culturii (Bunka kunshō), 2008. "Donald Keene, 7 others win Order of Culture," Yomiuri Shimbun. 29 octombrie 2008.

Opere Traduceri Chikamatsu Monzaemon, The Battles of Coxinga: Chikamatsu's Puppet Play, Its Background and Importance (Taylor's Foreign Press, 1951) Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human (New Directions, 1958) Chikamatsu Monzaemon, The Major Plays of Chikamatsu (Columbia Univ Press, 1961) Kenkō Yoshida, Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko (Columbia Univ Press, 1967) Mishima Yukio, Five Modern No Plays - Including: Madame de Sade (Tuttle, 1967) Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, a Puppet Play (Columbia Univ Pr, 1971) Mishima Yukio, After the Banquet (Random House Inc, 1973) Dazai Osamu, The Setting Sun (Tuttle, 1981) Abe Kobo, Three Plays (Columbia Univ Pr, 1997) Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to Oku (Kodansha Amer Inc, 1997) Kawabata Yasunari, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Kodansha Amer Inc, 1998) Yuzo Yamamoto, One Hundred Sacks of Rice: A Stage Play (Nagaoka City Kome Hyappyo Foundation, 1998) Donald Keene & Oda Makoto, The Breaking Jewel, Keene, Donald (trans) (Columbia Univ Press, 2003)

Redactor Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Grove Pr, 1960) Anthology of Chinese Literature: From the 14th Century to the Present Day (coredactor cu Cyril Birch) (Grove Pr, 1987) Love Songs from the Man'Yoshu (Kodansha Amer Inc, 2000)

Opere în engleză The Battles of Coxinga: Chikamatsu's Puppet Play, Its Background and Importance (Taylor's Foreign Press, 1951) Japanese Literature an Introduction for Western Readers (Grove Press, 1955) Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology (Grove Press, 1956) Major Plays of Chikamatsu (Columbia Univ Press, 1961) Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu (Columbia Univ Press, 1961) Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 (Stanford Univ Press, 1969) Twenty Plays of the No Theatre (Columbia Univ Press, 1970) World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 (Henry Holt & Co, 1976) -(Second book in his "A History of Japanese Literature" series) Some Japanese Portraits (Kodansha Amer Inc, 1979) Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era (Henry Holt & Co, 1987) Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era; Poetry, Drama, Criticism (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1984) -(Fourth book in his "A History of Japanese Literature" series) Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era; Fiction (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1984) -(Third book in his "A History of Japanese Literature" series) The Pleasures of Japanese Literature (Columbia Univ Pr, 1988; ISBN 0-231-06736-4) Donald Keene with Herbert E. Plutschow, Introducing Kyoto (Kodansha Amer Inc,1989) Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese As Revealed Through 1, 000 Years of Diaries (Diane Pub Co, 1989) Modern Japanese Novels and the West (Umi Research Press, 1989) No and Bunraku: Two Forms of Japanese Theatre (Columbia Univ Press, 1990) Appreciations of Japanese Culture (Kodansha Amer Inc, 1991) Donald Keene with Ooka Makoto, The Colors of Poetry: Essays in Classic Japanese Verse (Katydid Books, 1991 Travelers of a Hundred Ages (Henry Holt & Co, 1992) Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (Henry Holt & Co, 1 iunie 1993) -(First book in his "A History of Japanese Literature" series) On Familiar Terms: A Journey Across Cultures (Kodansha Amer Inc, 1994) Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed Through Their Diaries (Henry Holt & Co, 1995) The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja: A Donald Keene Anthology (Columbia Univ Press, 1996 On Familiar Terms: To Japan and Back, a Lifetime Across Cultures (Kodansha Amer Inc, 1996) Donald Keene with Anne Nishimura & Frederic A. Sharf, Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Woodblock Prints from the Meija Era, 1868-1912 (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2001) Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 compiled by Donalde Keen, Wm. Theodore De Bary, George Tanabe and Paul Varley (Columbia Univ Press, 2001) Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 (Columbia Univ Press, 2002) Donald Keene with Lee Bruschke-Johnson & Ann Yonemura, Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne Van Biema Collection (Univ of Washington Press, 2002) Five Modern Japanese Novelists (Columbia Univ Press, 2002) Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan (Columbia Univ Press, 2003) Frog In The Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan 1793-1841 (Asia Perspectives), (Columbia Univ. Press, 2006) Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan.'' (Columbia Univ. Press, 2008)

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