Ian Hideo Levy (リービ 英雄 Rībi Hideo?, born November 29, 1950) is an American born-Japanese Language author. He was born in California and educated in Taiwan, America and Japan.
His English translation of the Man'yōshū won him the National Book Award in 1982.
He gained attention in Japan for his work Seijōki no Kikoenai Heya published in 1992, which won the Noma Literary Award for New Writers. He is one of the first Americans to write modern literature in Japanese. For his contributions to the introduction of Japanese literature to foreign readers he was awarded The Japan Foundation Special Prize for Japanese Language in 2007.
In 1996 his story Tiananmen was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize.
Works[]
Novels[]
- 『星条旗の聞こえない部屋』Seijouki no kikoenai heya(Koudansha 1992 / Koudansha Bungei Bunko 2004)
Translation by Christopher Scott as Ando's Room and Other Stories forthcoming - 『天安門』Ten'an'mon(Koudansha 1996)
- 『国民のうた』Kokumin no uta(Koudansha 1998)
- 『ヘンリーたけし レウィツキーの夏の紀行』Henrii Takeshi Rewuittsukii no natsu no kikou(Koudansha 2002)
- 『千々にくだけて』Chidi ni kudakete (Koudansha 2005 / Koudansha Bunko 2008)
- 『仮の水』Kari no mizu(Koudansha 2008)
Literary Criticism and Essays[]
- 『日本語の勝利』Nihongo no shouri (Koudansha 1992)
- 『新宿の万葉集』Shinjuku no man'youshuu(Asahi Shinbun 1996)
- 『アイデンティティーズ』Aidentitiizu (Koudansha 1997)
- 『最後の国境への旅』Saigo no kokkyou he no tabi(Chuou Koron Shinsha 2000)
- 『日本語を書く部屋』Nihongo wo kaku heya(Iwanami Shoten 2001)
- 『我的中国』Wareteki chuugoku(Iwanami Shoten 2004)
- 『英語でよむ万葉集』Eigo de yomu man'youshuu (Iwanami Shinsho 2004)
- 『越境の声』Ekkyou no koe (Iwanami Shoten 2007)
- 『延安 革命聖地への旅』Enan kakumei seichi he no tabi(Koudansha 2008)
Man'yōshū Scholarship[]
- Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism (Princeton University Press 1984)
- The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of the Man Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry (Princeton Library of Asian Translations) (Princeton University Press 1987)
- 万葉恋歌Love Songs from the Man'yoshu (Koudansha International 2000)
- Man'yo Luster 万葉集 (Pie Books 2002)
Translations[]
- Otohiko Kaga 錨のない船 Riding the East Wind: A Novel of War and Peace (Koudansha America 2002)
External links[]
- JF Video Square Video of acceptance speech for Japan Foundation Special Prize.
- The World in Japanese Literature Video of lecture given at Stanford University Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, February 11, 2010.
- Riding the East Wind - review of Levy's translation of novel by Otohiko Kaga
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