Edward Seidensticker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edward Seidensticker

American japanologist

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1921

Place of Birth: Castle Rock, Colorado, United States

Date of Death: 26-Aug-2007

Profession: historian, translator

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Edward George Seidensticker (February 11, 1921 – August 26, 2007) was a noted post-World War II scholar, historian, and preeminent translator of classical and contemporary Japanese literature.
His English translation of the epic The Tale of Genji, published in 1976, was especially well received critically and is counted among the preferred modern translations.Seidensticker is closely associated with the work of three major Japanese writers of the 20th century: Yasunari Kawabata, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, and Yukio Mishima.
His landmark translations of novels by Kawabata, in particular Snow Country (1956) and Thousand Cranes (1958), led, in part, to Kawabata being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968.