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Date of Birth
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18-June-1922
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Place of Birth
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Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
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Nationality
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United States of America, Japan
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Also know as
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Donarudo Kiin, Donald Lawrence Keene
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Profession
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Professor, Teacher, Translator, Interpreter, Author, Writer
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Donald Lawrence Keene is an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature. Keene is University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship there.
His poetic nom de plume is 鬼怒鳴門, which he occasionally also uses as a nickname.
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