Karen Brazell
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Karen Brazell is an American professor and translator of Japanese literature. Her English-language translation of The Confessions of Lady Nijo
won an American National Book Award
for Translations. Karen Brazell holds a PhD from Columbia University
. She is presently Goldwin Smith Professor of Japanese Literature and Theatre at Cornell University
.http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/eastasia/directory/emeriti.asp?profile=346
Lady Nijo
was a Japanese historical figure. She was a concubine of Emperor Go-Fukakusa from 1271 to 1283, and later became a Buddhist nun. After years of travelling, around 1304–7 she wrote an autobiographical novel, Towazugatari , the work for which she is known today, and which...
won an American National Book Award
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
for Translations. Karen Brazell holds a PhD from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. She is presently Goldwin Smith Professor of Japanese Literature and Theatre at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
.http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/eastasia/directory/emeriti.asp?profile=346
Translations and editions
- Karen Brazell (trans), The Confessions of Lady Nijo. A Zenith book, published by Arrow Books Ltd., London, 1983. ISBN 0600208133
- Karen Brazell (Editor), James T. Araki (Translator) Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays (Translations from the Asian Classics Series), 1998. ISBN 978023110872
- Karen Brazell (Editor), Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays, Columbia University Press, 1999