Ian Buruma

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Ian Buruma (2006)

Ian Buruma (born December 28, 1951 in The Hague , Netherlands) is an Anglo-Dutch writer , journalist and commentator specializing in Asia . From 2017 to September 2018 he was Editor-in-Chief of the New York Review of Books .

Life

Buruma was born in the Netherlands and is the son of a Dutch father and an English mother. His father was deported to Berlin as a forced laborer in 1943, where he worked in a Knorr-Bremse AG factory, and was only able to continue his law studies at Utrecht University in 1945. His grandfather was a clergyman in a Mennonite community in Nijmegen . Ian Buruma studied Chinese literature in Leiden and then Japanese film at Nihon University in Tokyo . He then held various positions as editor and lecturer and published, among other things, in the American magazine The New York Review of Books .

He has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Institute for the Humanities , Washington, DC and at St Antony's College , Oxford . In 2003 Buruma became professor of democracy , human rights and journalism at Bard College in New York . He has lived in New York since 2005. Ulrich Baron judged his portrait from 1945 to be “a book that is worth reading, rich in information and perspectives” with “many illuminating highlights”.

Buruma caused a scandal in 2018 when he published a "self-pitying" ( Laura Kipnis ) article by Canadian pop singer Jian Ghomeshi , who was accused of sexual assault , without first consulting his fellow editors. He himself then terminated his contract with the publisher Rea S. Hederman.

Prizes and awards

In 2008 Buruma was awarded the Erasmus Prize. In 2018 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Also in 2018 he was accepted as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Fonts (selection)

Martin Amis and Ian Buruma, 2007 New York Festival
  • with Donald Richie : The Japanese Tattoo. 1980.
  • Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters, and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes. 1983.
  • Japan behind the smile: gods, gangsters, geishas. ( A Japanese mirror: Heroes and villains of Japanese culture ). 1984. (German 1985).
  • with James R. Brandon, Kenneth Frampton, Martin Friedman and Donald Richie: Tokyo: Form and Spirit. 1986.
  • The Dust of God: Asian Inquiries. ( God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey ). 1989. (German 1992).
  • Great Cities of the World: Hong Kong. 1991.
  • The game of the Maharajah. ( Playing the Game ). Novella. 1991. (German 1993).
  • Inheritance of guilt. ( The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and in Japan ). 1994.
  • Geisha: The Life, the Voices, the Art. 1998. with Jodi Cobb
  • Voltaire's Coconuts, or Anglomania in Europe. ( Anglomania: Europe's English Dream ). 1998. (German 2002).
  • The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West. 2000.
  • China's rebels: the dissidents and the dawn of a new society. ( Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing ). 2001. (German 2004).
  • Inventing Japan: From Empire to Economic Miracle 1853–1964. 2003.
  • with Avishai Margalit : Occidentalism : The West in the eyes of its enemies. ( Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies ). 2004.
  • The limits of tolerance: the murder of Theo van Gogh . translated from English by Wiebke Meier. Hanser Verlag , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-446-20836-4 .
  • Year Zero: A History of 1945. The Penguin Press, New York 2013.
    • '45: The world at a turning point. Translation Barbara Schaden. Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24734-5 .
  • Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War. Atlantic, London 2016.
    • Your promised land. The story of my grandparents . Translation Barbara Schaden. Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25459-6 .
  • Tokyo Romance. The Penguin Press, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-101-98141-2 .
  • Where to draw the line? in: Financial Times, March 30, 2019, p. L & A1f. [About his role as editor of Jian Ghomeshi's article]

literature

  • Michael Hesse: The cultivation of militarism. Conversation. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . June 20, 2015, p. 38 f.

Web links

Commons : Ian Buruma  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ed Pilkington: New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma departs amid outrage over essay. In: The Guardian. 19th September 2018.
  2. ↑ Ian Buruma: '45. The world at a turning point . Munich 2014, p. 14.
  3. ↑ a b Ulrich Baron: And-the-time-stood still. In: The world . April 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ Ian Buruma: '45. The world at a turning point . Munich 2014, p. 12.
  5. ↑ Ianburuma.com ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ianburuma.com
  6. ↑ Laura Kipnis: The Perils of Publishing in a #MeToo Moment. In: The New York Times. 25th September 2018.
  7. ↑ Gina Thomas: Who deserves the anger? In: FAZ. September 27, 2018, p. 9
    Harald Staun: The mob and the men. In: FAZ. October 7, 2018, p. 45.
  8. ^ Honorary Members: Ian Buruma. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  9. ^ Philippe Sands : Two lives in camouflage . Review. In: Financial Times . February 13, 2016, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Buruma, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-Dutch writer, journalist and commentator
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague