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Donald Keene
Donald Keene (1922-2019)

linguist, translator, historian, japanologist

  • Harvard University, Columbia University

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Modern Japanese diaries
Some Japanese Portraits
Emperor of Japan
Emperor of Japan
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion
On familiar terms
Koe no nokori
War-wasted Asia : letters, 1945-46
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture)
Futatsu no bokoku ni ikite
Frog in the well
Frog in the Well
Watashi no daiji na basho =
So lovely a country will never perish
Chronicles of my life
Eyewitness to history
Mō hitotsu no bokoku Nihon e =
Meeting with Japan
The first modern Japanese
Kinō no senchi kara
Nihon bungaku no naka e
Meiji Tennō o kataru
Meiji Chʻŏnhwang
Jiden
Masaoka Shiki
Donarudo Kīn
Watashi to 20-seiki no kuronikuru
Meeting with Japan
Kono hitosuji ni tsunagarite
Un occidental en Japón
Two countries, two homes
Watanabe Kazan
Confessions of a Japanologist
Ishikawa Takuboku
From a ruined empire
Modern Japanese literature
Travelers of a hundred ages
Dawn to the West
World within walls
Japanese literature
The pleasures of Japanese literature
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
Masterful Illusions
Anthology of Japanese literature, from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century
Sources of Japanese tradition
Seeds in the Heart
The Japanese discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
Bunraku
Landscapes and portraits, appreciations of Japanese culture
Anthology of Japanese literature, from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century
Five Modern Japanese Novelists
Essays in Idleness
Nō ; and, Bunraku
Sources of Japanese tradition
Koten o tanoshimu
Living Japan
Sources of Japanese Tradition, 1600 to 2000
The old woman, the wife and the archer
Living in Two Countries
The blue-eyed tarōkaja
Twenty plays of the Nō theatre
Modern Japanese novels and the West
Winter Sun Shines In
Hyakudai no kakaku
ANTHOLOGY OF JAPANESE LITERATURE TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Anthology of Japanese Literature
The Battles of Coxinga
TWENTY PLAYS OF THE NO THEATRE
Flowers of Buffoonery
La literatura japonesa entre Oriente y Occidente
Travels in Japan
Les journaux intimes dans la littérature japonaise
The Major Plays of Chikamatsu
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
World Within Walls (Pb)
No
Tales of Ise
Nihonjin no biishiki
Appreciations of Japanese Culture
Nihon bungaku no rekishi
Three Plays by Kobo Abe
Zoku hyakudai no kakaku
The Winter Sun Shines In
Los placeres de la literatura japonesa
Japan at the dawn of the modern age
Nihon o rikaisuru made
Seeds in the Heart
Aoi me no Tarō Kaja
Essays in Idleness
Anthology of Chinese literature
Nō: the classical theatre of Japan
So lovely a country will never perish
Five Modern Noh Plays
Landscapes and Portraits
Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age
Nihon bungaku o yomu
Anthology of Japanese literature
Donarudo Kīn watashi no Nihongo shugyō
Nihon no miryoku
Tsui saki no utagoe wa
Nihonjin no shitsumon
Nihon to no deai
Nihon no haiku wa naze sekai bungaku nano ka
Moshi moshi, sumimasen, dōmo =
Modern Japanese Novels and the West
Twenty plays of the No theatre
Nō
KCTS Chefs 2005
Nihon no sakka
The distinctiveness of the Japanese
Landscapes and portraits, appreciations of Japanese culture
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
Hyakudai no kakaku
Donarudo Kīn no omban fūshi kaden
No
No
Bashô's Journey of 1684
Nihon bungakushi
Hateshinaku utsukushii Nihon
Nihongo no bi
Twenty plays of the Nō theatre
Early Light
Modern Japanese poetry
Watakushi no Nihon bungaku shōyō
Anthology of Japanese literature to the nineteenth century
The Japanese discovery of Europe
Uruwashiki sengo Nihon
Meiji Tennō
Senjō no Eroika shinfonī
Friends, a Play
EDO JAPAN ENCOUNTERS THE WORLD
Watashi no sukina rekōdo
Appreciations of Japanese culture
Ikite iru Nihon
Literatura japoneză
Donarudo Kīn no Tōkyō shitamachi nikki
Nihon bungaku o yomu
Tsui saki no utagoe wa
Travels in Japan
Emperor of Japan
Kabuki
Nihon no engeki
Ashikaga Yoshimasa
No the Classical Theatre of Japan
Twenty Plays of the No Theatre
Watashi no Nihon bungaku shōyō
Anthology of Japanese literature (UNESCO collection of representative works ; Japanese series)
Chushingura
So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish
Nihonjin no shitsumon
I︠A︡pont︠s︡y otkryvai︠u︡t Evropy, 1720-1830
Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
Omoide no sakkatachi
Narodziny japońskich tradycji
Nihon bungaku o yomu
Living Japan
Kōenroku, "Nihon bunka to josei"
Nihon no sakka
Tsui saki no utagoe wa
Japanese literature
Nihon bungaku ni okeru nisshi no chii
Koten no tanoshimi
Meiji Tennō
Renaissance Thought and Its Sources
Nippon o kotohogu
Oku no hosomichi to Yamagata
The Old Woman, The Wife, and The Archer
Kīn daiarī
Sekai no naka no Nihon bunka
Nō, bunraku, kabuki
Nihon no sakka
Living Japan
Modern Japanese Literature
Anthology of Japanese literature
La letteratura giapponese
Modern Japanese poetry
Kaiwa sakubun Eigo hyōgen jiten =
The blue-eyed tarōkaja
Zoku hyakudai no kakaku
The tale of the bamboo cutter
Donarudo Kīn chosakushū
Major Plays of Chikamatsu
The distinctiveness of the Japanese
The Manyoshu
Five Modern Japanese Novelists
Nihon bungaku sanpo
Japanische Literatur
Chronicles of My Life
Nihon bungakushi
Ongaku tono deai to yorokobi
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion
Kaiwa sakubun Eigo hyōgen jiten
The Japanese discovery of Europe
Twenty Plays of the Nō Theatre
Anthology of Chinese Literature, from the Fourteenth Century to the Present
Ascending to Manhood
The Tale of the Shining Princess
Anthology of Japanese literature
Living Japan (The Land, The People and Their Changing World)
Nihon no miryoku
Pleasures of Japanese Literature
Chronicles of My Life
Nihonjin no seiyō hakken
Watashi no Nihongo shugyō
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
Iapōnikē logotechnia
Living in two countries
Expatriates of No Country
Modern Japanese literature
Koten no tanoshimi
No - The Classical Theatre of Japan
Modern Japanese novels and the West
Donarudo Kīn no opera e yōkoso!
Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
No and Bunraku
Nihon bungaku ni okeru nisshi no chii
Blue-Eyed Tarokaja
Nihonjin no seiyō hakken
Nihonjin no shitsumon
Nihon bungaku wa sekai no kakehashi
Stranniki v vekakh
Bunraku
"Nyūyōku taimuzu" no Donarudo Kīn
Sukoshi mimi no itaku naru hanashi
Anthology of Japanese Literature
Heroes, old and new
Nihonjin no sensō
Nihon saiken
Mivḥar ha-sipur ha-Yapani
Anthology of Japanese literature to the nineteenth century
Furukushite atarashiki mono
Modern Japanese literature
Nihon o rikaisuru made
Donarudo, Kīn no onban fūshi kaden
Breaking Jewel
Meiji Tennō
Dentō to kojin
Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
La literatura japonesa
30 things Japanese
Kabuki Today
Essays on Asian theater, music and dance
Kōyū shō
Sekai no Genji monogatari
Japanese literature
Three Plays by Kobo Abe
Anthology of Japanese literature, from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century
Hyakudai no kakaku
Nihon no bungaku
Aoi me no Tarō Kaja
Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, a Puppet Play (UNESCO collection of representative works:)
Hans Joachim Störig
Hans Joachim Störig (1915-2012)

lexicographer, linguist, historian, philosopher, jurist, editor

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Ein Stück Leben
Kleine Weltgeschichte der Philosophie
Der Freiheit eine Gasse
Kleine Weltgeschichte der Wissenschaft
Die Axt im Haus
Weltgeschichte der Wissenschaft
Abenteuer Sprache
Das Problem des Übersetzens
Der Grosse Knaur; Lexikon in vier Bänden
S. Fischer Lexikon
Wirtschaft
Wirtschaft ein Entscheidungs- bereich
Arthur Lehning
Arthur Lehning (1899-2000)

translator, linguist, historian

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Michel Bakounine et ses relations avec Sergej Nečaev, 1870-1872
Michel Bakounine sur la guerre franco-allemande et la révolution sociale en France, 1870-1871
Michel Bakounine et ses relations slaves, 1870-1875
In memoriam Maria Hunink, 1924-1988
From Buonarroti to Bakunin
The International association, 1855-1859
Unterhaltungen mit Bakunin
Prometheus en het recht van opstand
Marxismus und Anarchismus in der russischen Revolution
Marxismo y Anarquismo En La Revolucion Rusa
L'Empire knouto-germanique et la révolution sociale
i 10
Essays en commentaren
Buonarroti and his international secret societies
Anarchismus und Marxismus in der russischen Revolution
Duitsland
Arthur Lehning in 1974
Onder antiquaren
De vriend van mijn jeugd
Ich will weder befehlen noch gehorchen
De draad van Ariadne
Radendemocratie of staatscommunisme: marxisme en anarchisme in de Russische Revolutie
Anarchisme et Marxismes dans la Révolution Russe
Anarchismus und Marxismus in der russischen Revolution
Karl Wolfskehl
Karl Wolfskehl (1869-1948)

linguist, poet, translator

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Briefwechsel mit Friedrich Gundolf, 1899-1931
Karl Wolfskehl
Exul poeta
What Men of Letters Say
Zehn Jahre Exil
Karl Wolfskehls Briefwechsel aus Neuseeland 1938-1948
Gesammelte Werke. [Hrsg. von Margot Ruben und Claus Victor Bock
Gesammelte Dichtungen
Späte Dichtungen
Poetry and Exile
Die stimme spricht
Gesammelte Werke
Der Meister und der Tod
Sang aus dem Exil
Briefe und Aufsätze
1933, a poem sequence
Karl Wolfskehl
An die Deutschen
Älteste deutsche Dichtungen
Briefwechsel aus Italien 1933-1938
Gesammelte Dichtungen
Hiob, oder, die vier Spiegel
Zweiunddreissig zum fünfzigsten
Lebensluft, oder, Ein Vormittag bei Hermes
Die menschwerdung
Das Jahrhundert Goethes
Ha-ḳol ha-medaber
Älteste deutsche Dichtungen
Bild und Gesetz
Zweiunddreissig zum fünfzigsten
Briefwechsel Mit Friedrich Gundolf, 1899-1931
Gesammelte Werke
Sang aus dem Exil
Deutsche Dichtung
Der Umkreis
Saul
Die stimme Spricht
Sanctus
Ioan Slavici
Ioan Slavici (1848-1925)

philologist, journalist

  • Moise Nicoară National College

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Amintiri
The mill of luck and plenty and other stories
Scrieri alese
Die Rumänen in Ungarn, Siebenbürgen und der Bukowina
Die Rum©·anen in Ungarn, Siebenb©·urgen und der Bukowina
Povești
Zîna Zorilor
Novellas
Opere
Zîna Zorilor și alte povești
Stories
Proză
Moara cu noroc
Mara
Romanele vieții
The lucky mill
Budulea Taichii
Atitudini şi mărturisiri
The lucky mill
Florita̦ din codru, si̦ alte povesți
Teatru
Nuvele
Die glücksmühle
Puişorii
Românii de peste Carpați
Mara
Amintiri
El molino afortunado
Atitudini și mărturisiri
Gramatica limbii române
"Soll" si "Haben"
Dmytro Yavornytsky
Dmytro Yavornytsky (1855-1940)

lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, historian, folklorist, ethnographer

  • National University of Kharkiv

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Z ukraïnsʹkoï starovyny
Iz ukraĭnskoĭ stariny
Z ukraïnsʹkoï starovyny
Iz ukraïnsʹkoï starovyny
Як жило славне Запорожське Низове військо
Istoriia zaporozhskikh kozakov
Tvory
Epistoli︠a︡rna spadshchyna akademika D.I. I︠A︡vornyt︠s︡ʹkoho
Do istoriï stepovoï Ukraïny
Iz ukraĭnskoĭ stariny
Dniprovi porohy
Ukraïnsʹki narodni pisni, naspivani D. I︠A︡vornyt︠s︡ʹkym
Za chuz︠h︡yĭ hrikh
Za chuz͡hyĭ hrikh
Volʹnosti zaporoz︠h︡ʹkykh kozakiv
Hetʹman Petro Konashevych Sahaĭdachnyĭ
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal (born 1955)

diplomat, translator, poet, instrumentalist, historian, philanthropist, singer, illustrator, environmentalist, comics artist, photographer, linguist, social worker, dancer, military officer, composer

  • Chulalongkorn University, Srinakharinwirot University

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Singkhapō sančhō̜n
Pā sūng nām sai
Thatsana čhāk ʻIndīa
"Chom chō̜ mālatī"
Yam dǣn mangkō̜n
Khō̜ hai čhaophāp čhong čharœ̄n
Thūa nō̜ng čhō
Yen sabāi chāinam
Thawiphāk sančhō̜n
Manī phlō̜i rō̜i sǣng
Somdet mǣ kap kānsưksā
Chom dō̜kmai klai bān
Rāingān wičhai kānsưksā khwāmthūktō̜ng khō̜ng phǣnthī kānchai thīdin čhāk phāpthāi dāothīam rāilaʻīat sūng sưng čhamnǣk dōi khō̜mphiutœ̄ bō̜riwēn Čhangwat Narāthiwāt =
Rūam botkhwām prakō̜p kānbanyāi phisēt wichā phūmisāt 154762
Sinlapakam fīphrahat Somdet Phrathēprattanarātchasudā Sayāmbō̜rommarātchakumārī
Kæ rō̜i sōm
ʻAnam Sayāmmit
Lat fā lā wichā hā ʻāčhān
ʻAi rak khư̄ ʻarai?
Khamēn sām yok
Pœ̄t saphān mittraphāp Thai-Lāo
Thai thīeo Phamā
Dang dūang kǣo
Yư̄an thin ʻIndīan Dǣng
Bungā rampai
Mūansư̄n Mư̄ang Lāo
Lāo tō̜n tai
Bœ̄ng bō̜ than bœ̄ng bō̜ mot
Mung klai nai rō̜i sāi
Kasattriyānusō̜n
Pramūan phrarātchadamrat læ phrabō̜rommarāchōwāt Somdet Phrathēprattanarātchasudā-- Sayāmbō̜rommarātchakumārī
Kānphatthanā nawattakam sœ̄m thaksa kānrīan kānsō̜n phāsā Thai samrap nakrīan chan matthayommasưksā tō̜n plāi
Phutthasāsanasuphāsit khamkhlōng
Chalœ̄m phrakīat læ rūam phrarātchaniphon (Phō̜. Sō̜. 2510-2520)
Botphraniphon bāng rư̄ang
Lāo klai bān
Khāo Thai =
Mư̄a khāphačhao pen nakrīan nō̜k
Kānwēlā thī phānlœ̄i
Rōman sančhō̜n
Fernando Sánchez Dragó
Fernando Sánchez Dragó (1936-2023)

journalist, politician, television presenter, literary critic, philologist

  • Colegio del Pilar

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La del alba sería
Mis encuentros con lo invisible
Libertad, fraternidad, desigualdad
Shangri-la, el elixir de la eterna juventud
Esos días azules
Galgo corredor
Muertes paralelas
La prueba del laberinto
Las fuentes del Nilo
Prisciliano y el Priscilianismo
Y si habla mal de España es español
El camino del corazón
Gárgoris y Habidis
Historia mágica del camino de Santiago
Carta de Jesús al Papa
La canción de Roldán
Diario de la noche
Finisterre
Del priscilianismo al liberalismo
El camino hacia Itaca
El lobo feroz
Diccionario Espasa España mágica
Sentado alegre en la popa
Soseki. Inmortal y tigre
Kokoro. A vida o muerte. Dragó entrevista a Dragó
El sendero de la mano izquierda
La España mágica
La dragontea
Preceptos de Oro de la Filosofía Perenne
España guadaña, arderéis como en el 36
Discurso numantino
Pacto de sangre
Eldorado
XXXIII Pregón Taurino de Sevilla [2015]
Habáname