Burton Watson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Burton Watson

translator

Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1925

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 01-Apr-2017

Profession: writer, translator, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Burton Dewitt Watson (June 13, 1925 – April 1, 2017) was an American scholar best known for his numerous translations of Chinese and Japanese literature into English.
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.