Hideo Levy
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Ian Hideo Levy (born 1950) is an American born, Japanese author. He was born in California and educated in Taiwan, America and Japan. Many consider his foreign traits to be weird, but his mastery of the Japanese language, in which he expresses himself, never ceases to amaze.
His English translation of the Man'yōshu won him the National Book Award in 1982.
He gained attention in Japan for his work Seijōki no Kikoenai Heya published in 1992, won the "Noma Literary Award for New Writers." One of the first Americans to write modern literature in the Japanese language, he's considered important in opening the doors for foreigners residing in Japan to participate in Japanese literature.
In 1996 his story Tiananmen was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize.
[edit] External links
- Riding the East Wind - book review of Levy's translation of novel by Otohiko Kaga
