Royall Tyler (academic)

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Royall Tyler
Born1936 (age 87–88)
London, England
Occupation
  • Scholar
  • translator
  • writer
GenreTranslation, poetry
SubjectJapanese literature
PartnerSusan Tyler
Website
www.wirritin.com

Royall Tyler (born 1936) is a scholar, writer, and

Japan-US Friendship Commission Translation Prize in 2001.[1][2] Tyler's first book of poetry was published in 2014, entitled A Great Valley Under the Stars, and his published collection of poetry, Under Currockbilly which recounts his life during the year 2014, suggests he has spent periods of his life in France, Japan, the United States, Australia, and elsewhere.[3][4]

Academic career

Tyler completed his B.A. in Far Eastern Languages at

University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Oslo, Norway.[5]

He has translated and wrote several

Japan-US Friendship Commission Translation Prize for his translation of the complete Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji Monogatari) text, a project that took eight years to complete and had been the third ever attempt at translating the tale to the English language.[2]

Tyler currently self-publishes his works under his own imprint, Blue-Tongue Books, and continues to host lectures at international seminars and symposiums.[2][6] Tyler's current working project is titled Continuing with Accounts of the Japanese 14th Century, which does not yet have a release date.[7]

Personal life

Tyler is a descendant of two other authors named Royall Tyler, one being American playwright

the United States and then in France during his high school years. Tyler now lives in rural New South Wales with his wife on a farm in New South Wales, 100 acres beyond Mongarlowe by Braidwood and at the western foot of Mount Currockbilly, which provided inspiration for his published 2016 collection of poems Under Currockbilly.[9]

In 1993, Tyler and his wife purchased several alpacas and brought them to their property, managing a farm and breeding and showing alpacas for twenty years until 2013 when they sold the majority of their herd, although they continue to live on their farm with a few of their animals.[1][6][9] Tyler is also a practiced spinner along with his wife, making yarn from the alpaca fleece for over ten years and bringing their refined fabric products to national shows.[10]

Currently retired, he continues to publish books and personal works under his own book imprint, Blue-Tongue Books, which is named after the blue-tongue skinks that would populate the surrounding of his and his wife's farm during the summertime.[8]

Honors

Selected works and translations

  • Japanese Tales, Pantheon, 1987
  • French Folktales, Pantheon, 1989
  • Japanese Nô Dramas, Penguin, 1990
  • The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity, Columbia University Press, 1992
  • The Tale of Genji, Viking, 2001 (hardback) and Penguin, 2002 (softcover)
  • Mistress Oriku: Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse by Kawaguchi Matsutarô, Tuttle, 2007
  • The Glass Slipper and Other Stories by Yasuoka Shôtarô, Dalkey Archive Press, 2008
  • The Ise Stories: Ise monogatari, University of Hawai'i Press, 2010 (with Joshua Mostow)
  • Flowers of Grass by Fukunaga Takehiko, Dalkey Archive Press, 2012
  • The Tale of the Heike, Penguin, 2012
  • A Great Valley Under the Stars, Isobar Press, 2014
  • Before Heike and After: Hogen, Heiji, Jokyuki, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016
  • From the Bamboo-View Pavilion: Takemuki-ga-ki, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016
  • From Baishōron to Nantaiheiki, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016
  • A Reading of The Tale of Genji, Blue-Tongue Books, 2016
  • To Hallow Genji: A Tribute to Noh, Blue-Tongue Books, 2017
  • Iwashimizu Hachiman in War and Cult, Blue-Tongue Books, 2017
  • Henri Pourrat and Le Trésor des Contes, Blue-Tongue Books, 2020
  • The Castelvecchio Family, by William R. Tyler (formatted and supplemented), 2014
  • One Name, Two Lives. Blue-Tongue Books, 2017
  • A Great Valley under the Stars. Isobar Press, 2014
  • Under Currockbilly. Blue-Tongue Books, 2016

References

  1. ^ a b "Royall Tyler". Isobar Press. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Royall Tyler". National Portrait Gallery people. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  3. ^ "Under Currockbilly". AbeBooks. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  4. ^ "A Great Valley Under the Stars". Isobar Press. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Royall Tyler". Penguin Random House Canada. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Royall Tyler". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  7. ^ Tyler, Royall. "Published Books". Wirritin. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  8. ^ a b Tyler, Royall. "Royall Tyler Goodreads Author". goodreads. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  9. ^ a b Tyler, Royall. "Us". Wirritin. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  10. ^ Tyler, Royall. "Spinning". Wirritin. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
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