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Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature

May 01, 2024

The Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature was established in 1979 and is administered by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University. It is the oldest prize for Japanese literary translation in the United States.

Works entered into competition are judged on the literary merit of the translation and the accuracy with which it reflects the spirit of the Japanese original.

The Keene Center annually awards $6,000 (USD) in Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature. A prize is given for the best translation of a modern work or a classical work, or the prize is divided between equally distinguished translations.[1]

List of winners edit

The following is a list of the winners:[2][3]

Year Winner(s) 1 Publisher 2 Notes
1979 Princeton University Press, Yuji Katydid Books The first prize ever given was a shared prize.
1980 Alfred A. Knopf
1981
  • Prof. Kären Wigen for A View by the Sea (海辺の光景, Kaihen no kōkei) by Shōtarō Yasuoka, a collection of short fiction including the titular novella
 Columbia University Press
1982 Princeton University Press
1983
  • Prof. Phyllis Lyons for The Selected Works of Dazai Osamu by Osamu Dazai
 Stanford University Press
1984 - - No prize was awarded
1985 North Point Press
1986 - - No prize was awarded
1987 University of Hawaiʻi Press
1988 Kodansha International
1989
  • Modern: Ms. Phyllis Birnbaum for Confessions of Love (色ざんげ, Iro zange) by Chiyo Uno
  • Classical: Prof. Steven Carter for Waiting for the Wind: 36 Poets of Japan's Late Medieval Period
 University of Hawaiʻi Press, Columbia University Press
1990 Kodansha International, Stanford University Press
1991
  • Modern: Prof. Paul McCarthy for A Cat, A Man, and Two Women (猫と庄造と二人の女, Neko to Shōzō to futari no onna) by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
  • Classical: Prof. Margaret Childs for Rethinking Sorrow: Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan
 Kodansha International, University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies
1992
  • Modern: Ms. Eve Zimmerman for Strawberry Road by Ishikawa Yoshimi
  • Classical: Prof. Edwin Cranston for A Waka Anthology: The Gem-Glistening Cup. Vol I
 Kodansha International, Stanford University Press
1993 - - No prize was awarded
1994
  • Modern: Mr. Wayne P. Lammers for Still Life and Other Stories (静物, Seibutsu) by Junzo Shono
  • Classical: Prof. H. Mack Horton for The Journal of Socho by Saiokuken Socho
 Stone Bridge Press, Stanford University Press
1995 - - No prize was awarded
1996
  • Modern: Prof. John Solt Glass Beret for The Selected Poems of Kitasono Katsue (1902-78) by Katué Kitasono
  • Classical: Prof. Makoto Ueda for Modern Japanese Tanka
 Morgan Press, Columbia University Press
1997 - - No prize was awarded
1998 University of Hawaiʻi Press, Columbia University Press
1999 Alfred A. Knopf, Columbia University Press
2000
  • Modern: Ms. Meredith McKinney for Ravine and Other Stories by Yoshikichi Furui
  • Classical: Prof. Roger K. Thomas for A Tale of False Fortunes (Namamiko Monogatari) by Fumiko Enchi
 Stone Bridge Press, University of Hawai’i Press
2001
  • Modern: Prof. James Philip Gabriel for Life in the Cul-De-Sac (群棲, Gunsei) by Kuroi Senji
  • Classical: Prof. Mae J. Smethurst for Dramatic Representations of Filial Piety: Five Noh in Translation
 Stone Bridge Press, Cornell University Press
2002 Viking Press
2003
  • Modern: Shogo Oketani and Leza Lowitz for America and Other Poems by Ayukawa Nobuo
  • Classical: Charles S. Inouye for Japanese Gothic Tales (Volume Two) by Kyōka Izumi
 Kaya Press, University of Hawai’i Press
2004 University of California Press
2005
  • Modern: Prof. Yosei Sugawara The Gift of Numbers by Yōko Ogawa
  • Classical: Prof. Damian Flanagan for The Tower of London by Natsume Sōseki
 Picador, Peter Owen Publishers
2006
  • Modern: Prof. Edward Fowler A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer by Ōyama Shirō
  • Classical: Prof. Joel Cohn for Botchan: A Modern Classic by Natsume Sōseki
 Cornell University Press, Kodansha USA
2007
  • Modern: Prof. Kozue Uzawa and Ms. Amelia Fielden for Ferris Wheel: 101 Modern and Contemporary Tanka
  • Classical: Prof. Anthony H. Chambers for Tales of Moonlight and Rain (雨月物語, Ugetsu Monogatari) by Ueda Akinari
 Cheng & Tsui, Columbia University Press
2008 Dalkey Archive Press
2009
  • Modern: Prof. Jeffrey M. Angles for Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako by Tada Chimako
  • Classical: Prof. Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen Murmured Conversations. A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet-Monk Shinkei by Shinkei
 University of California Press, Stanford University Press
2010 Counterpoint, Cambridge University Press
2011
  • Matthew Fraleigh for New Chronicles of Yanagibashi and Diary of a Journey to the West: Narushima Ryūhoku Reports from Home and Abroad by Narushima Ryūhoku
  • J. Keith Vincent for A Riot of Goldfish (金魚撩乱, Kingyo ryōran) by Kanoko Okamoto, including The Food Demon (Shokuma).
 Cornell University Press, Hesperus Press
2012 - - No prize was awarded
2013 Copper Canyon Press
2014 Other Press, Canongate Books
2015
  • Steven D. Carter for The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essay
  • Terry Gallagher for Self-Reference ENGINE by Toh EnJoe
  • Stephen D. Miller and Patrick Donnelly for The Wind from Vulture Peak
 Columbia University Press, VIZ Media, Cornell University Press
2016 - - No prize was awarded
2017
  • David Boyd for Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa
  • Hiroaki Sato for The Silver Spoon: Memoir of a Boyhood in Japan by Kansuke Naka
 Pushkin Press, Stone Bridge Press
2018 Cornell University Press
2019 Kurodahan Press, New Directions Publishing
2020
  • Gerald Groemer for Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan: The Shogun's Capital in Zuihitsu Writings, 1657-1855
 Palgrave Macmillan
2021 New Directions Publishing, Cornell University Press
2022
  • Brian Bergstrom for Trinity, Trinity, Trinity by Erika Kobayashi
 Astra House
2023 Columbia University Press, Pushkin Press
1 Note: From 1979 to 1988, only a single translation prize was given annually. Beginning in 1989, the prize was given in two categories: translations from Japanese classical literature and translation from Japanese modern literature (although such distinctions vary as does the number of winners in a given year).
2 Note: Where it applies, first the publisher of the first work mentioned then the publisher of the second work mentioned, separated by a comma.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture -- Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature". Duke University Research Funding. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Archive of past prize winners for the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature". Donald Keene Center. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature". Donald Keene Center. Retrieved 26 February 2024.

May 01, 2024
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The Japan U S Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature was established in 1979 and is administered by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University It is the oldest prize for Japanese literary translation in the United States Works entered into competition are judged on the literary merit of the translation and the accuracy with which it reflects the spirit of the Japanese original The Keene Center annually awards 6 000 USD in Japan U S Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature A prize is given for the best translation of a modern work or a classical work or the prize is divided between equally distinguished translations 1 List of winners editThe following is a list of the winners 2 3 Year Winner s 1 Publisher 2 Notes 1979 Mr Ian Hideo Levy for Man yōshu 万葉集 and Prof Robert Epp for Poetry by Kinoshita by Yuji Kinoshita Princeton University Press Yuji Katydid Books The first prize ever given was a shared prize 1980 Prof Juliet Winters Carpenter for Secret Rendezvous 密会 Mikkai by Kōbō Abe Alfred A Knopf 1981 Prof Karen Wigen for A View by the Sea 海辺の光景 Kaihen no kōkei by Shōtarō Yasuoka a collection of short fiction including the titular novella Columbia University Press 1982 Prof Laurel Rasplica Rodd for Kokinshu A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern 古今集 Kokinshu Princeton University Press 1983 Prof Phyllis Lyons for The Selected Works of Dazai Osamu by Osamu Dazai Stanford University Press 1984 No prize was awarded 1985 Mr Lane Dunlop for A Late Chrysanthemum Twenty four Stories from the Japanese a short story collection including works by Naoya Shiga Yasunari Kawabata Osamu Dazai Fumiko Hayashi among others North Point Press 1986 No prize was awarded 1987 Prof William E Naff for Before the Dawn 夜明け前 Yoakemae by Tōson Shimazaki University of Hawaiʻi Press 1988 Prof Carol Apollonio Flath for The Phoenix Tree and Other Stories 青桐 Aogiri by Satoko Kizaki Kodansha International 1989 Modern Ms Phyllis Birnbaum for Confessions of Love 色ざんげ Iro zange by Chiyo Uno Classical Prof Steven Carter for Waiting for the Wind 36 Poets of Japan s Late Medieval Period University of Hawaiʻi Press Columbia University Press 1990 Modern Prof Stephen Snyder for The Signore 安土 往還記 Azuchi ōkanki by Kunio Tsuji Classical Prof Paul Gordon Schalow for The Great Mirror of Male Love 男色大鏡 Nanshoku Ōkagami by Ihara Saikaku Kodansha International Stanford University Press 1991 Modern Prof Paul McCarthy for A Cat A Man and Two Women 猫と庄造と二人の女 Neko to Shōzō to futari no onna by Jun ichirō Tanizaki Classical Prof Margaret Childs for Rethinking Sorrow Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan Kodansha International University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies 1992 Modern Ms Eve Zimmerman for Strawberry Road by Ishikawa Yoshimi Classical Prof Edwin Cranston for A Waka Anthology The Gem Glistening Cup Vol I Kodansha International Stanford University Press 1993 No prize was awarded 1994 Modern Mr Wayne P Lammers for Still Life and Other Stories 静物 Seibutsu by Junzo Shono Classical Prof H Mack Horton for The Journal of Socho by Saiokuken Socho Stone Bridge Press Stanford University Press 1995 No prize was awarded 1996 Modern Prof John Solt Glass Beret for The Selected Poems of Kitasono Katsue 1902 78 by Katue Kitasono Classical Prof Makoto Ueda for Modern Japanese Tanka Morgan Press Columbia University Press 1997 No prize was awarded 1998 Modern Prof Elaine Gerbert for Love of Mountains Yamagoi by Kōji Uno Classical Prof J Thomas Rimer and Prof Jonathan Chaves for Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing The Wakan Roei shu University of Hawaiʻi Press Columbia University Press 1999 Modern Prof Jay Rubin for The Wind Up Bird Chronicle ねじまき鳥クロニクル Nejimakidori Kuronikuruu by Haruki Murakami Classical Mr Hiroaki Sato for Breeze Through Bamboo by Ema Saikō Alfred A Knopf Columbia University Press 2000 Modern Ms Meredith McKinney for Ravine and Other Stories by Yoshikichi Furui Classical Prof Roger K Thomas for A Tale of False Fortunes Namamiko Monogatari by Fumiko Enchi Stone Bridge Press University of Hawai i Press 2001 Modern Prof James Philip Gabriel for Life in the Cul De Sac 群棲 Gunsei by Kuroi Senji Classical Prof Mae J Smethurst for Dramatic Representations of Filial Piety Five Noh in Translation Stone Bridge Press Cornell University Press 2002 Prof Royall Tyler for The Tale of Genji 源氏物語 Genji monogatari by Murasaki Shikibu Viking Press 2003 Modern Shogo Oketani and Leza Lowitz for America and Other Poems by Ayukawa Nobuo Classical Charles S Inouye for Japanese Gothic Tales Volume Two by Kyōka Izumi Kaya Press University of Hawai i Press 2004 Prof Lawrence Rogers for Tokyo Stories A Literary Stroll a collection of short fiction set in different areas of Tokyo including pieces by Kyusaku Yumeno Yukio Mishima Ryunosuke Akutagawa Yasunari Kawabata Natsume Sōseki and others University of California Press 2005 Modern Prof Yosei Sugawara The Gift of Numbers by Yōko Ogawa Classical Prof Damian Flanagan for The Tower of London by Natsume Sōseki Picador Peter Owen Publishers 2006 Modern Prof Edward Fowler A Man with No Talents Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer by Ōyama Shirō Classical Prof Joel Cohn for Botchan A Modern Classic by Natsume Sōseki Cornell University Press Kodansha USA 2007 Modern Prof Kozue Uzawa and Ms Amelia Fielden for Ferris Wheel 101 Modern and Contemporary Tanka Classical Prof Anthony H Chambers for Tales of Moonlight and Rain 雨月物語 Ugetsu Monogatari by Ueda Akinari Cheng amp Tsui Columbia University Press 2008 Prof Dennis C Washburn for The Temple of the Wild Geese 雁の寺 Gan no tera and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen 越前竹人形 Echizen takeningyō by Tsutomu Mizukami Dalkey Archive Press 2009 Modern Prof Jeffrey M Angles for Forest of Eyes Selected Poems of Tada Chimako by Tada Chimako Classical Prof Esperanza Ramirez Christensen Murmured Conversations A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet Monk Shinkei by Shinkei University of California Press Stanford University Press 2010 Modern Prof Michael Emmerich for Manazuru 真鶴 by Hiromi Kawakami Classical Prof Tom Hare for Zeami Performance Notes by Zeami Motokiyo Counterpoint Cambridge University Press 2011 Matthew Fraleigh for New Chronicles of Yanagibashi and Diary of a Journey to the West Narushima Ryuhoku Reports from Home and Abroad by Narushima Ryuhoku J Keith Vincent for A Riot of Goldfish 金魚撩乱 Kingyo ryōran by Kanoko Okamoto including The Food Demon Shokuma Cornell University Press Hesperus Press 2012 No prize was awarded 2013 W S Merwin and Takako Lento for Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson by Yosa Buson Copper Canyon Press 2014 Juliet Winters Carpenter for A True Novel 本格小説 Honkaku Shōsetsu by Minae Mizumura Rebecca Copeland for The Goddess Chronicle 女神記 Joshinki by Natsuo Kirino Other Press Canongate Books 2015 Steven D Carter for The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essay Terry Gallagher for Self Reference ENGINE by Toh EnJoe Stephen D Miller and Patrick Donnelly for The Wind from Vulture Peak Columbia University Press VIZ Media Cornell University Press 2016 No prize was awarded 2017 David Boyd for Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa Hiroaki Sato for The Silver Spoon Memoir of a Boyhood in Japan by Kansuke Naka Pushkin Press Stone Bridge Press 2018 Takako Lento for Pioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry by Mitsuharu Kaneko Cornell University Press 2019 Janine Beichman for Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets Selected Poems 1972 1989 by Makoto Ōoka Sam Bett for Star by Yukio Mishima Kurodahan Press New Directions Publishing 2020 Gerald Groemer for Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan The Shogun s Capital in Zuihitsu Writings 1657 1855 Palgrave Macmillan 2021 David Boyd for The Hole 穴 Ana by Hiroko Oyamada Glynne Walley for Eight Dogs or Hakkenden Part One An Ill Considered Jest by Kyokutei Bakin New Directions Publishing Cornell University Press 2022 Brian Bergstrom for Trinity Trinity Trinity by Erika Kobayashi Astra House 2023 Torquil Duthie for The Kokinshu Selected Poems Kendall Heitzman for Nails and Eyes by Kaori Fujino Columbia University Press Pushkin Press 1 Note From 1979 to 1988 only a single translation prize was given annually Beginning in 1989 the prize was given in two categories translations from Japanese classical literature and translation from Japanese modern literature although such distinctions vary as does the number of winners in a given year 2 Note Where it applies first the publisher of the first work mentioned then the publisher of the second work mentioned separated by a comma See also editJapan United States Friendship Act of 1975References edit Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture Japan U S Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature Duke University Research Funding Retrieved 27 February 2024 Archive of past prize winners for the Japan U S Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature Donald Keene Center Retrieved 26 February 2024 Japan U S 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