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Karen Brazell, American academic, professor and translator of Japanese, died she was 73.

Karen Brazell  was an American professor and translator of Japanese literature died he was 73.. Her English language edition of The Confessions of Lady Nijō won a U.S. National Book Award in category Translation.[1][2]

(c. 1938 – January 18, 2012)


Karen Brazell held a PhD from Columbia University, and was, until her death, Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature and Theatre at Cornell University.[3] She died in 2012 at the age of 73.[4][5]

Translations and editions

  • Karen Brazell (trans), The Confessions of Lady Nijo. A Zenith book, published by Arrow Books Ltd., London, 1983. ISBN 0-600-20813-3
  • Karen Brazell (Editor), James T. Araki (Translator) Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays (Translations from the Asian Classics Series), 1998. ISBN 0-231-10873-7
  • Karen Brazell (Editor), Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays, Columbia University Press, 1999



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