Lane Dunlop (1937/38 - 2013) received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Literature as well as the Japan-U.S. Friendship Award for Literary Translation for both A Late Chrysanthemum and Twenty-Four Stories. His translations include Kafu Nagai's During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade: Two Novellas and Yasunari Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.
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Alan Tansman is Agassiz Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism, The Writings of Koda Aya: A Japanese Literary Daughter and editor, with Dennis Washburn, of Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan.