Donald Keene

Donald Keene
Donald Keene

Donald Lawrence Keene was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature. Keene was University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kīn Donarudo . This was also his poetic nom de plume and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form 鬼怒鳴門.

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Male
Date of Birth
June 18th, 1922
Age
104
Birth Place
United States of America, New York
Date of Death
February 24th, 2019
Died Aged
96
Star Sign
Gemini
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