Dennis C. Washburn
For his translations of Tsutomu Mizukami's The Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen.

Dennis Washburn is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He has authored or edited several books, including: The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction (Yale University Press, 1995); Word and Image in Japanese Cinema (Cambridge University Press, 2000); Translating Mount Fuji (Columbia University Press, 2006); and Converting Cultures (Brill, 2007). He has also translated novels by Ôoka Shôhei and Yokomitsu Riichi. His current projects include preparation of a Critical Edition of The Tale of Genji for Norton and a translation of Tsushima Yûko's novel Laughing Wolf.

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