Dunlop, Lane

Lane Dunlop graduated from Yale in 1957 and began a career as a translator, first of French works and then pre-1960s Japanese literature. His first translation was Soap by Francis Ponge. Lane Dunlop then studied Japanese and earned a scholarship to study under Ivan Morris and Donald Keene at Columbia University.

In 1986, Lane Dunlop translated A Late Chrysanthemum, a collection of twenty-one Stories from seven Japanese authors, which won the Japan-United States Friendship Award for Literary Translation.

In 1997, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him an Academy Award in Literature, recognizing him for the "assertive mastery that is evident not only in his fluent translations but also in his choices of texts."