| LC control no. | n 50046423 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PL855.E2 |
| Personal name heading | Keene, Donald |
| Variant(s) | Kīn, Donarudo, 1922-2019 キーンドナルド, 1922-2019 ドナルド・キーン, 1922-2019 Keane, Donald, 1922-2019 |
| Other standard no. | 108222247 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1922-06-18 |
| Death date | 2019-02-24 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Tokyo (Japan) |
| Field of activity | Japanese language Japanese literature--History and criticism Japanese literature--Translations into English |
| Affiliation | Columbia University |
| Profession or occupation | Japanese teachers College teachers Translators |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. Non-Latin script references reviewed in NACO CJK Funnel References Project. |
| Found in | His The Japanese discovery of Europe, 1952. Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1922; Ph.D.) Nichi-Ei koji kotowaza jiten, 1994: t.p. (Donarudo Kīn [in katakana]) Essays in idleness, c1998: t.p. (Donald Keene) p. 4 of cover (author and translator) Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Dec. 11, 2006 (Donald Keene; b. June 18, 1922, New York, N.Y.; Columbia University, Ph. D., 1951; Cambridge University, D. Litt., 1978; Columbia University, professor of Japanese, 1955- ) Hojoki = An account of my hut, 2006: p.[3] (Translated by Donald Keane) New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 25, 2019 (in obituary published Feb. 24: Donald Keene; b. June 18, 1922, Brooklyn; d. Sunday [Feb. 24, 2019], Tokyo, aged 96; his translations of Japanese literature into English and prodigious academic output helped define the study of the subject and made him a celebrity in Japan; decided to become a Japanese citizen in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster that followed a deadly earthquake and tsunami, a gesture of solidarity with the nation that had already become his home in every sense except the official one) OCLC, June 28, 2020 (access point: ドナルド. キーン = Keene, Donald = キーンドナルド; usage: ドナルド.キーン = Donarudo Kīn) |
| Associated language | eng jpn |
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