1. Jeffrey Angles was born on 1971 and is a poet who writes free verse in his second language, Japanese.
13 Facts About Jeffrey Angles
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Jeffrey Angles is an American scholar of modern Japanese literature and an award-winning literary translator of modern Japanese poetry and fiction into English.
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Jeffrey Angles is a professor of Japanese language and Japanese literature at Western Michigan University.
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Jeffrey Angles is particularly interested in translating poetry and modernist texts, since he feels these have been largely overlooked and understudied by academics in the West.
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Jeffrey Angles has contributed a critically acclaimed voice-over commentary to the Criterion Collection's release of Kenji Mizoguchi's 1954 film Sansho the Bailiff.
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In 2009, Jeffrey Angles received the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, administered by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University for his translation of Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Chimako Tada by Chimako Tada.
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Jeffrey Angles's book of translations, Killing Kanoko: Selected Poems of Hiromi Ito, published in 2009 by Action Books, was a finalist in the poetry category of the Best Translated Book Award offered by Three Percent.
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Jeffrey Angles has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 2008 PEN Translation Fund Grant from PEN American Center for his translation of the memoirs of the contemporary poet Mutsuo Takahashi.
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In 2008, Jeffrey Angles was invited to the Kennedy Center in Washington DC to serve as the curator for the literary events in the Japan: Culture+Hyperculture Festival.
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Jeffrey Angles has been interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered about the short story collection Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion, which he co-edited with J Thomas Rimer.
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In 2017, Jeffrey Angles was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, a prize comparable to America's Pulitzer Prize, in poetry during a formal ceremony in Tokyo on Feb 17.
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Jeffrey Angles won the prize for his book of Japanese-language poetry, Watashi no hizukehenkosen.
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Jeffrey Angles is one of the few non-native speakers to win the award and is the first non-native ever to win for a book of poetry.