Philip Gabriel

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Philip Gabriel
Philip Gabriel in 2013
Born
James Philip Gabriel

1953 (age 70–71)
NationalityAmerican
EducationCornell University (PhD)
Occupation(s)Professor, translator
EmployerUniversity of Arizona

James Philip Gabriel

Japanologist. He is a full professor and former department chair of the University of Arizona's Department of East Asian Studies and is one of the major translators into English of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami.[2]

Gabriel was born in 1953 at Fort Ord, California.[3] Gabriel earned an undergraduate degree in Chinese and a Master's in Japanese. He taught in Japan for seven years in the late 1970s and 1980s. He later completed a doctorate in Japanese at Cornell University.[4]

Gabriel is also the translator of works by Nobel Prize-winner

PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for Kafka on the Shore
.

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References

  1. ^ "Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature". Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  2. ^ "Philip Gabriel". Arizona.edu.
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  4. ^ Gonzalez, Julieta (June 7, 2001). "Philip Gabriel, Professor of Japanese, Wins Prize for Translation of Literature". news.arizona.edu. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
  5. ^ "Fiction Book Review: First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel". Publishers Weekly. November 18, 2020. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
  6. ^ Ward, Elizabeth (July 22, 2001). "Dead-end lives in the suburbs of Tokyo". The Japan Times. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  7. ^ Tsujimura, Mizuki. "Lonely Castle in the Mirror". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-16.

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