The World in Japanese
November 3rd, 2011
6:00 PM
“The World in Japanese”
Ian Hideo Levy, Independent Scholar, Novelist, and Translator
Venue: Room 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Sponsored by Columbia University Press, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Lecture Information:
Levy Hideo, the first westerner to become a critically acclaimed novelist in Japanese, will relate the story of his own “life in a new language.” In doing so he will refer to the inspiration he received both from ancient Japanese literature and from the minority and bilingual novelists at the forefront of contemporary writing in Japan. This event is in commemoration of the publication of A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard, the first translation of his work into English.
Levy Hideo, the first westerner to become a critically acclaimed novelist in Japanese, will relate the story of his own “life in a new language.” In doing so he will refer to the inspiration he received both from ancient Japanese literature and from the minority and bilingual novelists at the forefront of contemporary writing in Japan. This event is in commemoration of the publication of A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard, the first translation of his work into English.
