# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/burton-watson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:10.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/burton-watson"
name: "Burton Watson"
slug: "burton-watson"
description: "Burton Dewitt Watson was an American sinologist, translator, and writer known for his English translations of Chinese and Japanese literature. Watson's translations received many awards, including the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in 1982 for his translation with Hiroaki Sato of From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, and again in 1995 for his translation of Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o. In 2015, at age 88, Watson was awarded the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation for his long and prolific translation career."
tagline: "American sinologist, translator, and writer (1925–2017)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1925-06-13"
deathDate: "2017-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump