Donald Keene
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Donald Keene in his Tokyo home in 2002.
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Donald Lawrence Keene June 18, 1922 New York City, New York, United States |
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Donald Lawrence Keene (born June 18, 1922) is an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature. Keene is University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kīn Donarudo (キーン ドナルド?, "Donald Keene" in the Japanese name order).
His poetic nom de plume (雅号 gagō?) is Kīn Donarudo (鬼怒鳴門?), which he occasionally also uses as a nickname.
Keene received a Bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1942. He studied the Japanese language at the U.S. Navy Japanese Language School in Boulder, Colorado and in Berkeley, California, and served as an intelligence officer in the Pacific region during World War II. Upon his discharge from the US Navy, he returned to Columbia where he earned a master's degree in 1947.
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