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Bookmark or Share- Selected Poems of Su Tung-P’o, Burton Watson, trans. – Copper Canyon PressBurton Watson is among the most revered translators of classical Chinese and Japanese poetry. Born in 1925 in New Rochelle, New York, he served for three years in the Navy during World War II, before beginning Chinese studies at Columbia University, where he eventually became a professor of Chinese.
- Remembering Burton Watson (1925 – 2017) - TRANSLATIONiSTABurton Watson, the great translator of classical Chinese and Japanese literature and recipient of the 2015 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, passed away in Japan earlier this month at the age of 91.
- Burton Watson, 1925-2017 (3) | MCLC Resource Center - U.OSUBurton Watson, whose spare, limpid translations, with erudite introductions, opened up the world of classical Japanese and Chinese literature to generations of English-speaking readers, died on April 1 in Kamagaya, Japan. He was 91.
- Burton Watson – Copper Canyon PressBurton Watson is among the most revered translators of classical Chinese and Japanese poetry. Born in 1925 in New Rochelle, New York, he served for three years in the Navy during World War II, before beginning Chinese studies at Columbia University, where he eventually became a professor of Chinese.
- On Burton Watson (1925-2017) - Columbia University Press BlogBurton Watson died a few days ago, and with his passing the world has lost one of its greatest translators. Burton was one of the only people who possessed the extraordinary ability to translate equally well from both Chinese and Japanese.
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