lingvo.wikisort.org - ForscherBurton Watson (* 13. Juni 1925 in New Rochelle, Vereinigte Staaten; † 1. April 2017 in Kamagaya, Präfektur Chiba)[1][2] war Übersetzer von chinesischer und japanischer Literatur.
Watson lehrte an den Universitäten Columbia, Stanford und Kyōto.
Er übersetzte The Lotus Sutra,[3] The Vimalakirti Sutra,[4][5] Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings, Mo Tzu: Basic Writings, Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings, Ryōkan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home und The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, Records of the Grand Historian (= Shiji, Auswahl), The Tso chuan (= Zuozhuan, Auswahl), alle sind bei der Columbia University Press erschienen.
1982 und 1995 erhielt er den PEN Translation Prize.
Weblinks
Einzelnachweise
- Nachruf (englisch), abgerufen am 19. April 2017
- Grimes, William (3 May 2017). "Burton Watson, 91, Influential Translator of Classical Asian Literature, Dies". The New York Times. p. A25.
- Deal, William E. (1996). Review: The Lotus Sutra by Burton Watson, China Review International 3 (2), 559-564
- Ziporyn, Brook (1998). Review : The Vimalakirti Sutra by Burton Watson, The Journal of Asian Studies 57 (1), 205-206
- Nattier, Jan (2000). "The Teaching of Vimalakīrti (Vimalakīrtinirdeśa): A Review of Four English Translations". Buddhist Literature. 2: 234–258
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Burton Dewitt Watson (June 13, 1925 – April 1, 2017) was an American sinologist, translator, and writer known for his English translations of Chinese and Japanese literature.[1] Watson's translations received many awards, including the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in 1982[2] for his translation with Hiroaki Sato of From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, and again in 1995 for Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o. In 2015, at age 88, Watson was awarded the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation for his long and prolific translation career.[3]
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