The prize for the best classical
literary translation was awarded to:
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Professor Mae J. Smethurst
For her translation of Dramatic Representations of Filial
Piety: Five Noh in Translation
Publisher:
Cornell
University East Asia Series
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 Professor
Smethurst is currently a Professor of Classics and Adjunct Professor
of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of
Pittsburgh. She spent the 2000-2001 academic year as a Visiting
Professor of Humanities at the Mita Campus of Keio University in
Japan. She is the author of The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami:
A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and No (Princeton
University Press, 1989), which was translated into Japanese by Akiko
Kiso and published by Osaka University Press. In 1990 Professor
Smethurst was awarded the American Association of University
Presses' Hiromi Arisawa Memorial Award for The Artistry of
Aeschylus and Zeami.
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The prize for the best modern
literary translation was awarded to:
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Professor James
Philip Gabriel
For his translation of Life in the Cul-De-Sac (Gunsei)
by Senji Kuroi
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
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 Professor
Gabriel is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian
Studies at the University of Arizona, where he teaches Japanese
Literature. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian Literature in 1993
at Cornell University. He is the author of Mad Wives and Island
Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature
(University of Hawaii Press, 1999), and the co-editor of Oe and
Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan (with Professor Stephen
Snyder, University of Hawaii Press, 1999). In addition, Professor
Gabriel is the translator of numerous works, including several by
Haruki Murakami: Underground (Vintage International, 2001;
co-translated), The Sputnik Sweetheart (Alfred A. Knopf
Publishers, 2001), South of the Border, West of the Sun
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), and three of Murakami's short stories that
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Reception and Award Ceremony for the Japan-U.S.
Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese
Literature
Friday, April 26, 2002
Main Reading Room, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Kent Hall,
Columbia University |
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Mae Smethurst accepts her award from Prof. David
Lurie
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Philip Gabriel accepts his award from Prof. Paul Anderer
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Paul Anderer, Philip Gabriel, Mae Smethurst, Henry Smith, and
David Lurie
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Ceremony held in Main Reading Room, C.V. Starr Library
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All photos: Joe Pineiro
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Presented by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese
Culture, with the support of the
Japan-U.S.
Friendship Commission |
