Donald Keene

Donald Keene
Junior Third Rank
Donald Keene Junior Third Rank
キーンドナルド
	Keene in 2011
Born	June 18, 1922; New York City, U.S
Died	February 24, 2019 (aged 96); Tokyo, Japan
Citizenship	United States (1922–2012); Japan (2012–2019);
Alma mater	Columbia University (BA, MA, PhD); Harvard University; Cambridge University (MA);
Occupations	Scholar, historian, professor, writer, linguist
Organizations	Cambridge University (1949–1954); Columbia University (1955–2011);
Children	1 (adopted)
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. He was 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. This was also his poetic pen name (雅号, gagō) and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form 鬼怒鳴門.