Donald Keene

Donald Keene Junior Third Rank
キーン ドナルド
Keene in April 2011
Born	Donald Lawrence Keene (1922-06-18)June 18, 1922 New York City, U.S
Died	February 24, 2019(2019-02-24) (aged 96) Tokyo, Japan
Citizenship	United States (1922–2012) Japan (2012–2019)
Alma mater	Columbia University (BA) (MA) (PhD) Harvard University Cambridge University (MA)
Occupation(s)	Scholar, historian, professor, writer and linguist
Organizations	Cambridge University (1949–1954) Columbia University (since 1955)
Known for	"History of Japanese Literature" series (1976–) "Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912" (2002)
Awards	Kikuchi Kan Prize (1962) Yamagata Banto Prize (1983) Yomiuri Prize (1985) Japanese Literature Award (1985) Fukuoka Prize (1991) 2nd Class, Order of the Rising Sun (1993) Asahi Prize (1998) Mainichi Publication Culture Award (2002) Order of Culture (2008) Junior Third Rank (2019)

Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.^[1][2] Keene was University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kīn Donarudo (キーン ドナルド) which is essentially his birth name in the Japanese name order.^[3] This was also his poetic pen name (雅号, gagō) and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form 鬼怒鳴門.^[4][a]

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