Ian Hideo Levy
Ian Hideo Levy (born November 29, 1950 in Berkeley ) is an American translator and writer. In Japanese publications he is often listed in Japanese as リ ー ビ 英雄 ( Rībi Hideo ).
Born to a Jewish-American father and a Polish mother, Ian Levy spent part of his youth in Taiwan and learned Japanese as a third language with his family during a stay in Japan. He began his literary career with a translation of the Man'yōshū , for which he was awarded the National Book Award in 1982. Then he started writing in Japanese. For the novel Seijōki no kikoenai heya he was awarded the 1992 Noma Literature Prize. In 1996 he was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize . In 2005 he received the Osaragi Jirō Prize for Chiji ni kudakete . In 2007 he was awarded the Japan Foundation's Special Prize for Japanese Language , and in 2009 he received the Itō-Sei Literature Prize for Kari no mizu .
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- Stanford University - The Book Haven - Post Tagges Ian Hideo Levy
- Karen Laura Thornber, "Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature" , Harvard University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03625-3 , p. 400
- Scott J. Miller: "The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater" , Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4617-3188-7 , p. 23
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| SURNAME | Levy, Ian Hideo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levy, Ian (maiden name); リ ー ビ 英雄 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and translator from Japanese |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berkeley |