Hideo Levy

Ian Hideo Levy ( born November 29, 1950 in Berkeley ) is an American translator and writer. In Japanese publications, he is often listed as Japaneseリービ 英雄( Ribi Hideo ).

Born the son of a Jewish-American father and a Polish mother, Ian Levy spent part of his youth in Taiwan and learned during a stay in Japan with his family as a young Japanese as a third language. He began his literary career with a translation of the Man'yōshū, for which he was awarded in 1982 with the National Book Award. Then he began to write in Japanese. For the novel Seijōki no kikoenai heya In 1992 he was awarded the Noma Literary Prize. He was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 1996. In 2005, he received Chiji ni kudakete the Osaragi - Jiro Prize. In 2007 he was awarded the Special Prize for Japanese Language Japan Foundation, and in 2009 he received for Kari no mizu the Itō -Sei Prize for Literature.

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• Stanford University - The Book Haven - Ian Hideo Levy Post Tagges
• Karen Laura Thornber: "Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transcultura Auditions of Japanese Literature ", Harvard University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780674036253, p 400
• Scott J. Miller: "The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater ", Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 9781461731887, p.23

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