Watson, B.

PersonType	Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Burton
LastName / namelast	Watson
namemiddle	Dewitt
MainNamePhon	Burton Watson
SortName	Watson, Burton
bio	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. 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 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. (Source Accessed June 7, 2021
YearBirth	1925/06/13
YearDeath	2017/04/01
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Burton Watson