Awards & Winners

Hideo Levy

Date of Birth 29-November-1950
Place of Birth Berkeley
(California, United States of America, Alameda County, San Francisco Bay Area, Area code 510)
Nationality Japan, United States of America
Also know as Ian Hideo Levy
Profession Writer, Author, Novelist, Essayist, Literary critic, Translator
Ian Hideo Levy is an American-born Japanese language author. He was born in California and educated in Taiwan, America, and Japan. He gained attention in Japan for his work Seijōki no Kikoenai Heya published in 1992, which won the Noma Literary Award for New Writers. He is one of the first Americans to write modern literature in Japanese. For his contributions to the introduction of Japanese literature to foreign readers he was honored with a Japan Foundation Special Prize in 2007. In 1996 his story Tiananmen was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize.

Awards by Hideo Levy

Check all the awards nominated and won by Hideo Levy.

1982


National Book Award for Translation
Honored for : The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of the Man Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Translation The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of the Man Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry