Burton Watson

Burton Watson ( born 1925 in New Rochelle, United States) is a translator of Chinese and Japanese literature.

Watson taught at Columbia, Stanford, and Kyoto.

He translated The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings, Mo Tzu: Basic Writings, Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings, Ryokan: Zen Monk - Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, Records of the Grand Historian ( Shiji =, selection), The Tso chuan ( = Zuozhuan, selection), all published by Columbia University Press.

1982 and 1995 he received the PEN Translation Prize.