Hideo Levy

Hideo Levy studied at Princeton University. The recorded working language is Japanese and English. The field of work recorded is belletristic literature, Japanese literature and translation from Japanese. Employment is recorded with Stanford University and Seitoku University. Distinctions recorded are Noma Literary New Face Prize, Osaragi Jirō Award, Sei Itō Award and Yomiuri Prize.

• Name — Hideo Levy • Birth Name — Ian Hideo Levy • Born — 29 November 1950 • Birthplace — Berkeley, California • Occupation — Writer • Language — Japanese • Awards — * Noma Literary New Face Prize • Yomiuri Prize

Levy was born in Berkeley, California on 29 November 1950 to a Polish-American mother and a Jewish father. His father named him after a friend who was imprisoned in an internment camp during World War II. Levy's father was a diplomat, and the family moved around between Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. He graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in East Asian studies, and later received his doctorate from the same school for studying the poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro. While at Princeton, Levy studied the Man'yōshū. His English translation of the text was one of the finalists of the 1982 U.S. National Book Award in the Translation category. He has referred to the Man'yōshū scholar Susumu Nakanishi as his mentor. After working as an assistant professor at Princeton, he moved to Stanford University and taught there. He later left and moved to Tokyo. Levy gained attention in Japan as the first foreigner to win the Noma Literary Award for New Writers, which he received in 1992 for his work A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard. In 1996, his story Tiananmen was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize. For his contributions to the introduction of Japanese literature to foreign readers, he was honored with a Japan Foundation Special Prize in 2007. In 2017, he won the Yomiuri Prize.

• 1st Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature for his English translation of Man'yōshū, 1979. • 14th Noma Literary New Face Prize, 1992 • Japan Foundation Award, 2007 • 68th Yomiuri Prize, 2017

• Kodansha 1992 / Kodansha Bungei Bunko 2004; trans. Christopher D. Scott, Columbia University Press, 2011 • "Tiananmen"; Kodansha 1996 • "Song of the People"; Kodansha 1998 • "Henry Takeshi Levitsky's Summer Travel Journal"; Kodansha 2002 • "Broken Into Thousands of Pieces"; Kodansha 2005 / Kodansha Bunko 2008 • Kodansha 2008 • Shūeisha 2017 • Kodansha 2021

• Otohiko Kaga's Riding the East Wind: A Novel of War and Peace